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'Writing is on the wall for spinning rust': IBM joins Pure Storage in claiming disk drives will go the way of the dodo in enterprises (www.techradar.com)
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[–] thejml@lemm.ee 23 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Meanwhile Western Digital moves away from SSD production and back to HDDs for massive storage of AI and data lakes and such: https://www.techspot.com/news/107039-western-digital-exits-ssd-market-shifts-focus-hard.html

[–] Mataresian@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yea but isn't that more because SanDisk is going to fully focus on that? Or what am I missing?

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 day ago

That SanDisk is it's own company now.
But I don't k ow if they are still a subsidiary or completely spun of WD.