WD notebook drive shipments plummet WD revenues and profits are declining as it finds disks and SSDs a hard sell in what its CEO calls “an increasingly challenging global economic environment”. Revenues for the second fiscal 2016 quarter, ended Jan 1, were $3.3bn, which is 2.94 per cent lower than the $3.4bn recorded for its first quarter and a decline of 15 per …
Yeah right.
People are buying SSDs in huge numbers because they work well and have decent warranties.
As soon as large capacity SSDs are available at reasonable prices, they'll gut the consumer and enterpise spinning enterprise market - that said, I just bought a dozen 4TB SSDs despite the pricing because they were the best fit for the server (we needed low latency access to scratchpad data and they were only 4 times the price of equivalent 2.5 inch "enterprise storage" units)
Noone with any sense will buy WD and Seagate if they don't have to. Not after they both screwed the market over in the aftermath of the Thai floods (5 years later and 2-4TB consumer drives are still more expensive than pre-flood, plus only come with 12 month warranty, vs 5 years pre-flood).
The post-rust storage world is going to look different. Look for one of the large SSD makers to buy up the WD/Seagate names in the end, not the other way around.
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