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Western Digital Won’t Make SSDs Anymore (www.howtogeek.com)

submitted 1 year ago by RileyKennels@alien.top to c/datahoarder@selfhosted.forum

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[–] ZorbaTHut@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I am confused as to what Western Digital's long-term goals are. Are they honestly deciding to become an HDD-only company?

How long is there really going to be a mass market for HDDs?

[–] s_i_m_s@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Someone posted a graph and at current rates the cost per GB should converge around 2030 assuming current trends continue.

I figure sooner as i'd assume HDD costs will increase as the sales volume goes down

Almost all consumer goods are already SSD at this point.

Anytime a HDD goes out in anything at this point it gets replaced with a SSD.

Only things i'd stick with HDD for at this point is heavy storage like NVRs and backups.

Most modern laptops don't even have a place to put a HDD and I can't even complain about it you can put way more storage in a m.2 than you can in a 2.5" 9.5mm hdd.

HDDs will still be profitable for at least several years but it's pretty clear that SSDs are where the market is going.

[–] old_knurd@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

I am confused as to what Western Digital's long-term goals are.

Their long term goal is to stay in business to make money for their C-suite, their board of directors, and their stockholders.

E.g. 47 years ago, long before consumer HDDs, long before SSDs, Western Digital had a product that "revolutionized" storage. It was a chip that let you read and write "floppy disks".

A floppy disk was an 8" diameter flexible, removable, rotating magnetic storage media that stored about 240 Kilobytes of data.

I don't think WD will still be around 47 years from now, but you never know.