Western Digital to separate HDD and Flash business

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As announced on October 30, 2023, Western Digital plans to separate its HDD and Flash businesses.

Soon, we will launch two specialized websites that will change how you buy and get support for flash and HDD products from the Western Digital family of brands.

We will email you with more information soon about how this change may affect you. In the meantime, you may still contact Support if you need help with your online store order or with any product and technical questions.

Thank you for your continued business,

The Western Digital Team

As WD owns SanDisk this will have some sort of impact on current and future registration of flash drives for dashcams. It seemed that WD and SD never did successfully merge the two business, especially the store front for the both of them and warranty. At one time, if you registered the flash on the SD side and then needed warranty, you would be sent to the WD support. Problem was that WD could not see the SD registration information. Thus, you would have to re-register on the WD side. It was a real PITA.

Hopefully, this split will benefit the users of HDD and Flash devices, at least when it comes to warranty issues.