With Western Digital and Seagate, two of the three remaining hard drive manufacturers worldwide have confirmed that they have already sold their production quotas for 2026 completely or almost ...

The current component shortage the technology industry finds itself in, driven by the insatiable appetite of enormous AI data centers, started out with memory but has quickly spread to other ...

SanDisk’s SSD rebrand is starting to show up where it matters most: retail listings. After introducing the “Optimus” name in January as the successor brand for WD_BLACK and WD Blue drives inherited ...

WD has 40TB hard drives already undergoing qualification with hyperscale customers UltraSMR and ePMR allow higher platter density without changing drive form factors Dual Pivot adds a second actuator ...

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SSDs from the WD Black and WD Blue series are a thing of the past. Sandisk is instead digging up an old brand name. Sandisk announces a turning point for its own SSDs: The manufacturer is bidding ...

In context: SanDisk is phasing out Western Digital's familiar Blue and WD Black SSD lines, marking the first major product reshuffle since Western Digital's storage business split into two companies.

All WD_Black SSD products will be rebranded as SanDisk Optimus going forward. That means the "best PS5 SSD" in our opinion will be switched from WD_Black SN850X to SanDisk Optimus GX Pro 850X.

SanDisk has announced a rebranding of its consumer SSD portfolio, formally retiring the WD Black and WD Blue product names. Following the company’s separation from Western Digital, all SSDs previously ...