Do SanDisk supply their NAND chip to other brand/companies?

[ElectronicGuitar]

Long story short, I bought a NVME SSD (It's not under the WD umbrella), and I recently found there is no signature or anything on the NAND, but a hand writing 1024

The Flash id read it as SanDisk 96 Layer TLC. Do WD or SanDisk sell their NAND to other brand?

Not sure if I got a recycled NAND?

 

It could be a WD NAND mis-read as SanDisk, but the blank NAND really bothers me

 

Thanks in advance

[johnno23]

YES .. in 2013 they were one of the worlds six leading suppliers together with toshiba. later Toshiba and Sandisk merged with their efforts for reseach and production.

 

EDIT: here is a link to todays world of Nand suppliers if interested https://www.bisinfotech.com/top-5-nand-flash-companies-in-the-world/

 

[Blue4130]

31 minutes ago, ElectronicGuitar said:

Long story short, I bought a NVME SSD (It's not under the WD umbrella), and I recently found there is no signature or anything on the NAND, but a hand writing 1024

The Flash id read it as SanDisk 96 Layer TLC. Do WD or SanDisk sell their NAND to other brand?

Not sure if I got a recycled NAND?

 

It could be a WD NAND mis-read as SanDisk, but the blank NAND really bothers me

 

Thanks in advance

 

If you look online, all sandisk nand chips are lazer etched, this looks like a diy hackjob. What brand is the actuall SSD?

[johnno23]

The handwritten is possibly simply an identifier of capacity to avoid any licencsing fees or maybe to avoid conflict of interest between companies due to branding? I have seen on older hardware that is 100% legit .. things like old modems PCi cards etc and a couple have hand witten info. ? It could be a refurbished item but I do not rule out something recycled either.

[ElectronicGuitar]

14 hours ago, Blue4130 said:

If you look online, all sandisk nand chips are lazer etched, this looks like a diy hackjob. What brand is the actuall SSD?

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