>WD saying their Japanese plant is getting fucked
>According to the company's current assessment, there would be a shortage of at least 6.5 exabytes in flash storage availability. One exabyte equals one billion gigabytes.
Buy your SSDs and HDDs now price hikes are coming
WD saying their Japanese plant is getting fucked
What kind of contamination are they talking about?
Nanomachines, son
They won't say. But some are saying expect at least a 10% price hike
SSD BTFO
Embrace the HDD, kids
Material contamination
ie someone fucked up in their supply line
Nerve gas
What if I buy some 3TB Toshiba P300's instead?
>yfw there are nanomachines in your hard drive right now collecting your data
Merchants
Dilation fluid.
another case of nerve gas
>6.5 exabytes in flash storage lost
>1 exabyte is 1000 petabytes
>Google, Facebook, Microsoft, and Amazon store at least 1,200 petabytes of information combined.
I would've thought they had 1 exabyte each not combined
The virgin bath water they need to produce NAND turned out to be male virgin bath water.
Jewish ashes.
>local stores already trying to sell 1TB SATA SSDs for $400
Dust? Aren't these facilities some kind of super-sealed vacuum chambers because a random subatomic particle drifting into the assembly line will displace too many electrons or whatever.
Pretty sure that's the case in HDD factories too. It's probably contamination in the raw material that's fucking with the products.
an hdd you recommend?
They tried to hike up the prices withat thay hdd crypto thing and now they're being blatant about fucking greedy sons of bitches
>Merchants
I hate it when that happens.
They're so hard to get rid of.
aids