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I would've thought that destroying your users' data in vast amounts would be bad for the company. Surely this would shatter user trust? Who would buy something

I would've thought that destroying your users' data in vast amounts would be bad for the company. Surely this would shatter user trust? Who would buy something like this from Western Digital in the future? And yet, their stock price seems unaffected. It was slightly up, though just in the way it randomly fluctuates, on the day of the announcement.

throwawayboise 5y ago
It's a defect in an old product that they don't sell or even support anymore. They are still selling hard drives by the millions to server and storage OEMs. Consumers mostly are not even buying spinning drives anymore. It's all Flash or SSD.
- dehrmann 5y ago
  > Consumers mostly are not even buying spinning drives anymore. It's all Flash or SSD. On one hand, they own Sandisk. On the other, no one outside of the industry knows that.