[Lex Computer & Tech Group/LCTG] Gizmodo: Western Digital Just Lost 6.5 Billion GB of Flash Storage, and You Could Pay the Price

[Robert Primak]

 Or, this may be one in a string of stories since the early-2000's which are trying to get people to hoard memory and hard drives, thinking the price is about to go up. And magically, the price does go up and (temporarily) the supply goes down. Imagine that!
-- Bob Primak 

    On Saturday, February 12, 2022, 05:07:03 PM EST, Drew King (dking65 at kingconsulting.us) <dking65 at kingconsulting.us> wrote:  
 
 Buy your memory consuming devices now!

Western Digital and Kioxia revealed this week that contaminated materials used in flash-memory chips ruined at least 6.5 exabytes, or more than 6.5 million terabytes, of storage. 



Gizmodo: Western Digital Just Lost 6.5 Billion GB of Flash Storage, and You Could Pay the Price.
https://gizmodo.com/wd-6-5-billion-gigabytes-flash-storage-factory-contamin-1848522061-- 
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