Black64 Posted July 2, 2019 Posted July 2, 2019 Western Digital just announced that an unexpected power loss in the Yokkaichi region of Japan has devastated a factory with its joint venture partner, Toshiba Memory Corporation. The power loss, which took place on June 15 of this year, caused damage to both of the facilities where NAND is made and the tools used to make the storage products. The factory hasn’t been fully operational since the outage and will not be able to resume full production until sometime in mid-July. Western Digital said it expects flash wafer production to be cut by approximately six exabytes this year. To put this into perspective, there are roughly a 1,000 terabytes in a petabyte and a 1,000 petabytes in an exabyte. According to Sources, 6EB of storage represents roughly half of Western Digital’s quarterly NAND production. Sources also said the Yokkaichi Operations facility where the incident took place turns out around 35 percent of the world’s NAND. Source: Techspot.comBack to original news post Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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