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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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[–] Alphane_Moon 10 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

I am surprised they decided to fully exit SSDs. One would think that in the next ~10 years $/TB prices for NAND will reach HDD prices.

In general, there are a lot of drawbacks to HDDs, they are relatively large, you having moving parts and of course sequential/random speed is attrocious even compared to the most bottom of the barrel QLC SSDs.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

HDDs are great when you need a ton of cheap storage, but don't really need it to be super fast. Especially if you use an SSD as a cache. Hdd technology is continuing to advance too, so it might be longer than a decade before prices are comparable.

[–] Alphane_Moon 3 points 2 weeks ago

I have an HDD base NAS for my movie collection, so I recognize that currently HDDs do have a use case. I was thinking more about the future.

[–] Tangent5280 2 points 2 weeks ago

Every CCTV system with playback uses HDDs. Can't use SSDs in that particular usecase because of the constant high volume writes.