Western Digital-owned SanDisk isn't doing great at the moment, with frustrated customers complaining that their valuable data is at risk due to failing SSDs. Although the company...
There is only Western Digital which acquired and absorbed SanDisk years ago. WD designs the devices, WD writes the firmware, WD manufactures the flash memory, assembles and tests (?) the products, and takes all the revenue.
SanDisk is just a sticker WD puts on consumer products because SanDisk built a reputation for reliable products (before they were acquired by WD).
BTW, WD is first and foremost a hard drive company. They’re pretty good at HDDs but have always looked down on flash. You can tell. I don’t buy any WD/SanDisk products.
Signed, a former SanDisk and reluctant WD employee.
Same how the Blue series CMR drive WD20EZRZ got superseded by the WD20EZAZ, just larger cache and it’s SMR now. In shops like Mindfactory there was not even a real price difference between the two. I found that shady at the time.
I bought a WD drive last year that was immediately defective. I installed Debian on it and immediately got syslog messages about bad blocks. Like seriously, is there any QC?
There is no SanDisk, that’s just a brand name.
There is only Western Digital which acquired and absorbed SanDisk years ago. WD designs the devices, WD writes the firmware, WD manufactures the flash memory, assembles and tests (?) the products, and takes all the revenue.
SanDisk is just a sticker WD puts on consumer products because SanDisk built a reputation for reliable products (before they were acquired by WD).
BTW, WD is first and foremost a hard drive company. They’re pretty good at HDDs but have always looked down on flash. You can tell. I don’t buy any WD/SanDisk products.
Signed, a former SanDisk and reluctant WD employee.
lol @ “pretty good at hard drives”! The NAS/homeserver community has been burned quite a few times lately by WD. They are dead to me.
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the rest i already knew but this is good info
if true, then another classic case of large company buying smaller company and becoming shit
WD is sabotaging their own reputation, the Red drive SMR bait and switch already says all.
Same how the Blue series CMR drive WD20EZRZ got superseded by the WD20EZAZ, just larger cache and it’s SMR now. In shops like Mindfactory there was not even a real price difference between the two. I found that shady at the time.
I bought a WD drive last year that was immediately defective. I installed Debian on it and immediately got syslog messages about bad blocks. Like seriously, is there any QC?
Isn’t the WD sn850x considered a top SSD right now?