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Western Digital is splitting into two companies, one focused on HDDs and one on Flash Memory (www.tweaktown.com)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (5 children)

So, Western Digital and Western Deprecated?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Wake me up when SSDs and spinning rust have price parity and I can fill my 100TB server with SSDs that doesn’t cost me as much as a car.

[–] southsamurai 1 points 10 months ago

Damn! 100 tb? Your lotion bill must be astronomical!

Sorry, I know it's a bad joke, but what all do you have on there?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

You will take away the 22TB drives from my cold dead hands

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Ya this is a clear sign the intend to eventually kill the hard drive side. Might even pile all the debt and other bad investments on the hard drive side and run it through bankruptcy.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

SSDs are just not good for cold storage from what I heard. So HDDs will have their nieche as long as an alternative comes that's better in this aspect too.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

They still make tape drives for big data storage, so i can see HD business being around for another decade or two.