confuser@lemmy.zip to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-26 days agoTIL western digital who is known for making disk drives is the parent company of sandisk who is known for making diskless storage.message-squaremessage-square23fedilinkarrow-up1231arrow-down112file-text
arrow-up1219arrow-down1message-squareTIL western digital who is known for making disk drives is the parent company of sandisk who is known for making diskless storage.confuser@lemmy.zip to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-26 days agomessage-square23fedilinkfile-text
This is funny to me because san-disk literally means no disk, same as how sans serif means no serifs. https://www.westerndigital.com/ https://shop.sandisk.com/
minus-squareadarza@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up26·6 days agowestern digital bought sandisk ~ 8 years ago as a form of self-preservation. their core business of mechanical hard drives was already in decline and being replaced by something completely different.
western digital bought sandisk ~ 8 years ago as a form of self-preservation. their core business of mechanical hard drives was already in decline and being replaced by something completely different.