- cash and stock deal worth about $19 billion

- Gregory Wong, an analyst with Forward Insights, rationalizes the adquisition:

"WD wants [SanDisk] for the access to the flash. Their PC HDD business is declining due to the weak PC market but also because SSDs are encroaching that space," Wong said. "Without access to NAND flash at cost, it would've been difficult for them to participate in that space and also would've increasingly been difficult to compete with NAND players in the enterprise space."

http://www.computerworld.com/article/2996037/data-storage-solutions/heres-why-western-digital-is-buying-sandisk.html

I'm glad the buyer ended up being Western Digital, and not Micron Technology (not that I really thought it would be Micron, wouldn't have made any sense).

Well, as long as the price and quality doesn't get worse, it doesn't really matter too much to me..

All my hardrives are Western Digital... glad to see that quality will pour over into the solid state market more.

That quality is already there, with Samsung, Sandisk and Micron

Guess Western Digital of all companies to buy SanDisk makes the most sense, I can't really complain.