Western Digital sells the hard drives and flash storage that catch AI's exhaust. Training-data lakes, model artifacts, inference caches. The HDD spin-off is the corporate story.
Shares of SanDisk (NASDAQ:SNDK) are up 6% in Friday morning trading, changing hands near $1,989, while Western Digital (NASDAQ:WDC) stock up 6% to $561. The bid adds another leg to a furious AI storage melt-up that has lifted memory and disk-drive names into record territory. SNDK stock has staged one of the most extreme runs ... SanDisk and Western Digital Jump 6% as Traders Battle Over the AI Storage Stock Melt-Up