Japan will provide more subsidies to Kioxia and Western Digital for NAND memory chip manufacturing
Generative AI models need more memory, and manufacturers need more public funding to get going
The WD Black2 sports both a 120GB SSD and a 1TB HDD in a single package. Unlike other hybrid configs such as Seagate's Momentus XT which combine ample magnetic storage with a little NAND, the Black2 crams both technologies into one drive too, but it simply does what desktop users have been doing for years by making the flash portion a primary boot drive with the disk serving as bulk storage.