Fewer top end vendors leads to less competition though, less competition generally means higher prices overall.
It will be interesting to see how the 3D stuff fairs once it starts getting real work loads on it.
Western Digital Corp, still digesting SanDisk, is selling more disk drives than arch-rival Seagate and appears to be doing a booming flash business as well, for now. Second quarter revenues totalled $4.9bn, 48 per cent up on a year ago - but then WDC did buy SanDisk and its flash business in between, and 4 per cent up …