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Anyone in the industry able to tell me where WD sits in the flash space? I use WD for my HDDs pretty exclusively but had assumed their SSD offerings were mostl
by doublepg23 2y ago
Anyone in the industry able to tell me where WD sits in the flash space?
I use WD for my HDDs pretty exclusively but had assumed their SSD offerings were mostly white label drives they slapped their name on, are they a real competitor in the space?
- jsheard 2y agoWD is the real deal, they design their own SSD controller silicon in-house. They acquired Sandisk and HGST so there's a lot of expertise under their roof.
- magicalhippo 2y ago> they design their own SSD controller silicon in-house And they've been leaning into RISC-V[1] due to this. [1]: https://blog.westerndigital.com/risc-v-swerv-core-open-source/ https://blog.westerndigital.com/risc-v-swerv-core-open-sourc...
- wmf 2y agoWD SN850(X) is pretty much the best consumer SSD.