Toshiba and Western Digital lose in-production NAND after a power failure
On Friday, Western Digital disclosed that a factory operated by Toshiba Memory Corporation as part of the two companies' joint production operations in Japan's Yokkachi region had been affected by a power outage on June 15. According to to the storage manufacturer, the outage not only affected the facilities and tools used to make its flash storage, but six exabytes of Western Digital NAND that was in production was lost.
According to Reuters , the plant has been running at less-than-full capacity since the outage occurred, and won't be able to resume full production until the middle of July. Western Digital says that this will affect the company's bottom line during the first fiscal quarter, which runs July through September. Western DIgital ...