confuser@lemmy.zip to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-22 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-square20fedilinkarrow-up1210arrow-down18file-text
arrow-up1202arrow-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-22 days agomessage-square20fedilinkfile-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-squareteft@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up54·2 days agoThe san in sandisk is a replacement for sun not for sans. They basically didn’t want to be confused with Sun Microsystems so they renamed themselves.
minus-squareadarza@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up22·edit-22 days agothat is true, it was originally ‘sundisk’. the ‘new’ name (from 1995), though, is a rather clever double play on words. sandisk -> sans disk (no disk) sandisk -> sand disk (made from sand)
The san in sandisk is a replacement for sun not for sans. They basically didn’t want to be confused with Sun Microsystems so they renamed themselves.
that is true, it was originally ‘sundisk’. the ‘new’ name (from 1995), though, is a rather clever double play on words.
sandisk -> sans disk (no disk)
sandisk -> sand disk (made from sand)