Oops, Western Digital just ruined 6.5 billion gigabytes of flash storage

The Western Digital headquarters in San Jose, California. Western Digital Corporation says it has lost 6.5 exabytes (6.5 billion gigabytes) of flash storage due to contaminated materials at two of its manufacturing plants in Japan, operated by joint-venture partner Kioxia Holdings Corporation (formerly Toshiba). That’s a lot of flash storage gone, and analysts expect that… Continue reading Oops, Western Digital just ruined 6.5 billion gigabytes of flash storage