In the US in certain industries, you have to do quarterly disaster recovery testing.
I am surprised they don’t do something like that here. The losses would certainly warrant it.
One application of this kind of product is chip fabs because they are so sensitive to power disruptions.
Whether Toshiba/WD had this type of system and if so, why it didn't prevent loss of product was not mentioned in the linked article. I have heard that there is a glut in chips for SSDs so a reason to cut production can't be ruled out. However it seems like Toshiba/WD would pay the price for this outage while their competitors would reap the benefits (unless the competition agreed to somehow share the cost.)
No it's not? Isn't that basically capitalism working as intended (in this rare case)?
One would think. Though, the tech industry is much like any other industry, and I imagine a conversation like this:
Engineer: We need to install backup generators in case the grid goes down.
Middle manager: Can you do it without stopping production?
Engineer: No.
Middle manager: Screw it. It's the next guy's problem.
>Toshiba Memory and Western Digital on Friday disclosed that an unexpected power outage in the Yokkaichi province in Japan on June 15 affected the manufacturing facilities that are jointly operated. //
Surely that's not the reason, it would have to be "and local [backup] power failed, and the failovers for that failed too"??
Toshiba manufacture generators too, it's not like they'd need to go far to get backup power designed for them.
There must be more to this? (Which explains why people are assuming it's suspicious, I guess; and this site is making 35% of global NAND output).
FWIW, I hadn't realised that it takes ~2months to process a wafer in to a chip.