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After over 20 years in operation, Western Digital Corporation announced that it will be shutting down its HDD (hard disk drive) manufacturing facility in Petaling Jaya, Selangor, by the end of 2019.

Western Digital (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd Managing Director Gouw Kim San says that the move is in response to the declining demand for HDDs in the long-term.

“Western Digital Corporation is continually evaluating and transforming its business to deliver value to customers and remain competitive as a data technology leader. This transformation requires that the company take difficult but important actions, including optimisation of its large-scale manufacturing facilities located throughout Asia,” he said in a statement.

US-based Western Digital entered Malaysia in 1973, initially making custom semiconductors before transitioning to manufacturing hard drives. In 2011, a US$1.2bil (RM4.8bil) research and development facility was added to the 92,903sq m manufacturing plant in PJ.

The shutdown will not eliminate Western Digital’s presence in Malaysia altogether, as the company still has manufacturing sites in Johor and Sarawak.
Gouw stated that Western Digital will shift its focus from HDD to SDD (solid state drive) and NAND flash production in Malaysia, with plans to expand its SSD manufacturing plant in Penang.

“The company is in the final stages of commissioning its second SSD facility in Penang, which will go into production in the coming months,” he said.

Western Digital will retain a Center of Excellence in Selangor, housing several key engineering teams, core operational planning and regional support functions. Employees impacted by this move will receive assistance, including severance compensation and upskilling support.

“Western Digital remains firmly committed to Malaysia. The company values and appreciates its 45-year history of partnership with the Malaysian Government and looks forward to many more years of shared prosperity and success,” said Gouw.

This isn’t the first time a US-based disk storage solutions company shutdown its major manufacturing facilities in Malaysia. Last year, Seagate Technology closed its factories in Penang and Negri Sembilan after over 20 years of operation in this country. Seagate also attributed the closures to low demands of HDDs on a global scale.
Read more at https://www.thestar.com.my/tech/tech-news/2...2Y3FQu7pciQo.99

Not so straight forward as it seems.

CHINA has now the capacity to make their own SSD.

see.... https://www.aliexpress.com/wholesale?catId=...&SearchText=ssd

Thus breaking the monopoly of the big players.... Samsung, Scandisk and Kingston.

To retaliate , these companies have decided to DUMP prices to stuff out these new players from CHINA.

PLUS using the new 3d storage tech which they have developed , they have DUMP prices of the higher capacity SSD, thus making smaller SSD cheaper.

GOOD for CONSUMERS !!!!     

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Hope they start making GPU ...... Prices now is really crazy ...    

Cheaper due to lower quality.

Thanks TS just got 480gb for under 300.

What's the pro and cons of the 480gb SSD? My 120GB SSD can use some more space.

I just did some preliminary research into nvme, how do i know if my system is compatible with it if I want to use it as boot drive?

lazada and 11street is the same.. but lazada is two weeks.

You don't need to open new thread for such low end SSD. .

I have the exact same SSD too, but I bought it early, it came in plastic case instead of metal one. It is still good as new till today (never used more than half of its space).

But given the choice of MLC vs TLC, I will choose MLC any time any day. There are reason MLC costing a premium over TLC of same size. TLC if same size easily have endurance only one tenth of what MLC can offer. For storage you want something as long lasting as possible. But nowadays it’s VNAND era, VNAND TLC is an acceptable compromise that have an endurance closer to conventional MLC. The endurance for VNAND MLC should on theory be over the roof, LOL.

Is this SSD compatible with Macbook Pro Mid 2012 Non Retina?

Just check the review for Kingston A400.....not bad
ya it cant fight high end model like samsung evo etc2 but price wise is so worth it
OS Drive = SSD, Data Drive = HDD ....winlioaaa

any cheap nvme?
my current lappy only got one m2 slot , currenly using micron sata6..

the other laptop i have can put m2 + 2.5inch.

Fake ones?

What software do you recommend for manual backup & sync ?

Ok, computer idiot here. Did you guys replace the laptop HDD with SSD?