Good Bye, Western Digital Platters!
Founded back in 1970, Western Digital Corporation is one of the largest hard drive manufacturer, but this Lake Forest-based company is also a semiconductor maker, involved in more than simply "hard drives". One of the less known facts about them is that Western Digital platters were sold to other hard drive manufacturers, including Seagate, the world's leader. I said "were sold," because Western Digital just changed this...
Obviously, they will simply cease to sell platters to the competition. Basically, the Komag company that is specialised in manufacturing of platters, is owned by Western Digital, so they decided to stop selling platters to the others, as well as change Komag's name into "WD Media."
Don Blake, WD Media's vice president and general manager, said "This action sizes our media and substrate operation to the current demands of a single customer-WD's hard drive business. It efficiently streamlines our media and substrate operations while enhancing focus on the development of future manufacturing technologies to support media and substrate requirements resulting from continued success in our hard drive business."
Now, we should see how the rest of the industry reacts to this move, but I wouldn't worry, especially since the classic hard drives are getting near the end of their existence, and I am sure Komag wasn't the only hard drive platters manufacturer...
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