Thread regarding Western Digital Corp. layoffs

WD has been making poor investment choices over the years

WD has been making poor investment choices ever since 2007.

Silicon Systems - total flop, where did their products go? lol

Skyera - also a flop in my opinion

HGST - was good, especially enterprise hdd, but ssd is doing well, but not for long. Without nand foundry, they will lose as Samsung is killing everyone and undercutting the competition.

Velobit - nothing to show for.

Virident - nothing to show for.

And now Sandisk. Ask yourself this. Would any company doing "well" want to sell itself? Do you see Tesla, Apple, or Google selling themselves to somebody like Ford Motors or General Motors? No! Good companies, stay alive and keep themselves to themselves.

Sandisk obviously is not doing as well as it should, and it knows that. Together, with WD, they figure they can survive a bit longer. But under what REASONS would Sandisk want to sell itself to WD? If Sandisk's future is superb, then there is no reason to sell itself. I don't see Samsung selling their SSD org to anyone.

Make no mistake. WD is not about investing in their own employees. It's about hoarding cash and acquiring the next best company, and it doesn't care whether they are flops or not, because history has demonstrated, they are almost all flops as I've shown.

by Anonymous
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I am sorry for you, western digital folks. SanDisk cleverly sold itself before things started to go down. SanDisk's memory partner, Toshiba, has been sick and financially weak. SanDisk has been highly political in the past few years - promotions were given only to favored races. In enterprise, there were a number of bad acquisitions. On top of it, favorites of the executives were promoted to top positions in enterprise regardless of their talent and background. Unfortunately, WD's leadership team seems to be clueless, lacks good judgement and soon will layoff its own people and keep sandisk's low quality people around. Sad...Good luck to you all.

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WD's acquisition of HGST has the good part of enterprise HDD and SSD but with a heavy burden of HGST software that is useless to most enterprise storage system. China's Unigroup giving up on the 17% holding proves to be smart since the joint venture was lop-sided insincere from HGST part. I personally talking to both side and conclude this will be a bad deal for Unigroup. Fortunately Unigroup withdrew.

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why dont you stop talking trash and one sided facts and get us all a job at Samsung instead of being pessimistic. WD U-NITE. find this troll

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You missed several aquisitions made on the Branded side. What tends to smell is that these companies and people have been in WD's history dating back over ten years. And check HGST's history and you see the same people involved.

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Sandisk WD acquisition would not work out due to big cultural differences. The acquisition will close and the employees might not stay after close. Good luck WDC with massive loads of debt.

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SanDisk gives WD joint ownership of a NAND factory, and a 3D NAND factory that's being built. This keeps WD in the SSD game - the supply of NAND is pretty tight, otherwise.

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If CIBU is successful all those flops would have worth it. The team learned from them. Besides Virident product features went into the current NVMe products. The FlashMax shouldn't have been killed in my opinion, it still is a highly popular product. HGST had 0 software experience, now there is a good core in that, gaining experience. You can thank Skyera, Velobit, Virident and Stec for that. If San Disk acquisition go through WD would be in good position to compete with Intel and Samsung.

Those who act make mistakes, and when learn from those mistakes then they are worth it. Much better than Seagate, which is being driven over to the side with all this traffic rear ending each other.

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In the eyes of investors, WD is better than Seagate in this category. Seagate is fully doomed.

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