The rapid development of SSD solid state drives, HDD mechanical hard drives have fallen, and there is no technical advancement, especially the difficulty in capacity improvement, the performance is naturally unmatched, naturally more and more people are concerned, two long Western data, Seagate The days are not so good.
According to official data, Western Digital shipped only 36.4 million mechanical hard drives in the first quarter of this year, a record low, down 7% year-on-year and 14% quarter-on-quarter.
Since the market is so weak, it is natural that there is no need to fully produce it. Western Digital will close its hard disk factory near Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, by mid-2019. This is one of the first hard disk factories in Western Digital. It has been in operation since 1973 and has a history of 45 years.
from now on, Western Digital has only two mechanical hard disk factories left, all located in Thailand.
At the same time, Western Digital will increase its investment in NAND flash memory and SSD solid state drives. The expansion plan for the SSD plant in Penang, Malaysia has been basically completed and will start in the near future.
