Western Digital still selling defective Sandisk-brand SSDs that it refuses to answer questions about

Most of the brands are just rebadges, there are not that many NAND manufacturers.

The following were the largest NAND flash memory manufacturers, as of the second quarter of 2023.[26]

Samsung Electronics – 31.4%
Kioxia – 20.6%
Western Digital Corporation – 12.6%
SK Hynix – 18.5%
Micron Technology – 12.3%
Others – 8.7%

Note: SK Hynix acquired Intel’s NAND business at the end of 2021[27]
Kioxia spun out and got renamed of Toshiba in 2018/2019.[28]

Do Lexmark make SDs? There is Lexar, but they came out of Micron and are usually liked for a budget brand. I think they make their own NAND now.

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