Here’s the Business Wire link .
Apparently WD had some kind of material contamination and 6.5 EXABYTES of NAND storage is unusable.
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Wonderful, prices go up, up, up!
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That’s 6,815,744 Terabytes for anyone else that doesn’t know the scale.
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Maybe thats why not too long ago there was a HUGE silent sale on WD devices…hummmmm lol time for my foil hat
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SSDs being the new GPUs/Toilet paper of 2022-23?
And my news say WD+Kioxia are affected by this.
HDD sales per year have crossed the Zettabyte barrier a year ago, so although NAND Flash has lower capacities, I doubt this will have a major impact on today’s shipped capacities.
checked SSD sales from 2021…6.5 Exabyte was only like 2% of shipped SSDs that year. So not a big deal unless you’re an investor in that factory.
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It press release says it was in January.
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It was going on silently on Amazon for a while even in January… I was just being paranoid. lol
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“Analysts at TrendForce claim that “damaged bits account for 13 percent of the group’s output in 1Q22 and approximately 3 percent of the total output for the year,” and that this may cause the price of NAND flash to increase 5 - 10 percent during Q2.” - zdnet
the world sure produces a lot more nand than i expected
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Posts like this should ho into the news story thread.
Thank you
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If a mod wanted it moved there, I’m sure they would have. Some stories need more exposure and discussion than just plopping a link into thread and hope someone sees it.
Last I knew that thread was referenced to L1N episodes. Seems like the best postervoard
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