My new girlfriend is western d staff. u r out of details. pls double check.
WD has in Pasir Gudang, PJ and PNG. The PJ is closing down and remain 500 staff support only. PJ operation all transfer to WD Thailand where cost is much cheaper.
WD >10years staff are overvalue. They pay 15%-18% employer contribution to epf and salary >5K for executive doing admin work.
SDD is the new trend due to its fast speed, less power, reliability and WD will expanding PNG plant to cater SDD growth but HDD demand will still be there because its 2/3 cheaper than SDD.
one of tech experts claim as below:
"The top drive manufacturers say that they expect HDDs and SSDs to coexist for the foreseeable future in all areas — home, business, and data center, with customers choosing which technology and product will best fit their application."
HDD still got its role and market. It will not be immediately phased out. Like superpanda said, they will coexist until the prices of SSD go lower.
HDD: - Still being favored in backup solution/service and AI related industry due to the relative cheaper price/capacity as compared to SSD and high capacity needed.
SSD: - More to personal electronic usage like laptop. Industry level still run on SSD (for high read/write speed)+HDD (for capacity) combination. A lot of high end server storage still use combination of SSD (low ratio of total disks)+HDD.
It has been quite a while we have not seen such an upside momentum. Looks like someone is buying up the shares rather than in a shares buyback supporting mode by the co itself.
the only downside is, too many shares hold from buy back, volume will be not much unless buying trend continue, retracement is possible but temporary. stop loss 1.04 if you enter 1.0.
paktua back to life after a long coma... still hold alot here since 05.02.18
old man manage grab 1.08,1.09 old man love red one tut tut 05/02/2018 09:31
sold partially at 1.16 just release the burden secure back capital and lock some profit.. its just tactical step for more strong fight later.. tut tut 07/02/2018 09:36
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how HDD demand still there. Western Digital also close its PG mfg plant and focus on SDD.