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by doublepg23·2y ago·view on hn ↗
Anyone in the industry able to tell me where WD sits in the flash space? I use WD for my HDDs pretty exclusively but had assumed their SSD offerings were mostly white label drives they slapped their name on, are they a real competitor in the space?
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WD is the real deal, they design their own SSD controller silicon in-house.

They acquired Sandisk and HGST so there's a lot of expertise under their roof.

> they design their own SSD controller silicon in-house

And they've been leaning into RISC-V[1] due to this.

[1]: https://blog.westerndigital.com/risc-v-swerv-core-open-sourc...

WD SN850(X) is pretty much the best consumer SSD.