confuser@lemmy.zip to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-23 days agoTIL western digital who is known for making disk drives is the parent company of sandisk who is known for making diskless storage.message-squaremessage-square23fedilinkarrow-up1229arrow-down111file-text
arrow-up1218arrow-down1message-squareTIL western digital who is known for making disk drives is the parent company of sandisk who is known for making diskless storage.confuser@lemmy.zip to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-23 days agomessage-square23fedilinkfile-text
This is funny to me because san-disk literally means no disk, same as how sans serif means no serifs. https://www.westerndigital.com/ https://shop.sandisk.com/
minus-squarej4k3@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down1·3 days agoThat’s interesting, but most SD cards are based on the old Intel 8051 microcontroller running in the background. While Bill Mensch is behind Western Digital and the 6502, which is the processor typically in the background of hard drives.
That’s interesting, but most SD cards are based on the old Intel 8051 microcontroller running in the background. While Bill Mensch is behind Western Digital and the 6502, which is the processor typically in the background of hard drives.