Western Digital is going to split into two independent companies next year, and both of them will focus on storage. One on HDDs and the other Flash Memory.
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.
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.
So, Western Digital and Western Deprecated?
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.
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?
You will take away the 22TB drives from my cold dead hands
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.
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.
They still make tape drives for big data storage, so i can see HD business being around for another decade or two.