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Western Digital exits SSD market, shifts focus to hard drives as SanDisk takes over NAND operations (www.techspot.com)

submitted 2 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/hardware

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Western Digital, a titan in the storage industry long renowned for its hard disk drives and solid-state drives, has officially separated its NAND flash memory business, effectively ending the company's direct involvement in SSD production and sales. Western Digital's exit from the market leaves behind a legacy of innovation and quality that has significantly impacted the PC gaming community.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

"As AI accelerates and impacts industries around the world, and as companies generate and store more data, HDD exabyte shipments are expected to increase," CEO Irving Tan said. He also points out that much of the data stored by cloud service providers, such as native cloud application data, AI data lakes, media, and machine learning data, runs on HDDs.