Western Digital exits SSD market, shifts focus to hard drives as SanDisk takes over NAND operations

[cyberblogger]

It's literally just HGST's drive with WD's name printed on THEIR designed label now.

HGST acquired the IBM HDD division that was a joint adventure with Toshiba and Fajitsu that Toshiba made the 3.5 HDD and Fajitsu made the laptop HDD. So HGST never really made a hard drive since they just took over the contract. Before that joint adventure, Seagate was IBM's HDD manufacturer.