Western Digital to lose out on 6.5 exabytes of flash storage following production line contamination

Western Digital's SanDisk Extreme Pro Portable SSD V2. Western Digital has announced that two of its manufacturing facilities in Japan were contaminated, which has affected production and will result in a shortage of 'at least 6.5 exabytes in flash storage availability,' according to Reuters. For context, one exabyte is equivalent to one billion gigabytes. Western Digital doesn't specify what products will be affected by this shortage, but its flash storage options include hardware under its San...