back to article SanDisk 'explores' sale, WD and Micron prick up ears - report

SanDisk has hired a bank to explore selling itself, according to reports citing confidential sources. Western Digital (WD) and Micron are said to be interested, Bloomberg has claimed. SanDisk was rumoured to be an acquisition target last month, with WD in the frame. With Dell bidding US$67.1 billion for EMC, perhaps the tech …

  1. BenBell

    From a purely personal perspective, this can (hopefully) only be a good thing.

    In the last couple of years, I have managed to brick at least half a dozen SANDisk cards in my Helmet Cam, phone, card reader, tablet etc...

    I also have purely WD drives in a 6 bay NAS, 2 desktops, 2 laptops, mixed up between SSD, 2.5" and 3.5" spinners - never a single failure to date.

    Hopefully a new parent company would mean higher standards and more stability from products... probably not, but I can hope. Or, maybe I've just been unlucky.

    Just my £0.02.

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