RileyKennels@alien.topB to Data Hoarder@selfhosted.forumEnglish · 10 months agoWestern Digital Won’t Make SSDs Anymorewww.howtogeek.comexternal-linkmessage-square27fedilinkarrow-up13arrow-down10
arrow-up13arrow-down1external-linkWestern Digital Won’t Make SSDs Anymorewww.howtogeek.comRileyKennels@alien.topB to Data Hoarder@selfhosted.forumEnglish · 10 months agomessage-square27fedilink
minus-squareold_knurd@alien.topBlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·10 months ago I am confused as to what Western Digital’s long-term goals are. Their long term goal is to stay in business to make money for their C-suite, their board of directors, and their stockholders. E.g. 47 years ago, long before consumer HDDs, long before SSDs, Western Digital had a product that “revolutionized” storage. It was a chip that let you read and write “floppy disks”. A floppy disk was an 8" diameter flexible, removable, rotating magnetic storage media that stored about 240 Kilobytes of data. I don’t think WD will still be around 47 years from now, but you never know.
Their long term goal is to stay in business to make money for their C-suite, their board of directors, and their stockholders.
E.g. 47 years ago, long before consumer HDDs, long before SSDs, Western Digital had a product that “revolutionized” storage. It was a chip that let you read and write “floppy disks”.
A floppy disk was an 8" diameter flexible, removable, rotating magnetic storage media that stored about 240 Kilobytes of data.
I don’t think WD will still be around 47 years from now, but you never know.