confuser to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-218 hours agoTIL western digital who is known for making disk drives is the parent company of sandisk who is known for making diskless storage.message-squaremessage-square21fedilinkarrow-up1199arrow-down110file-text
arrow-up1189arrow-down1message-squareTIL western digital who is known for making disk drives is the parent company of sandisk who is known for making diskless storage.confuser to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-218 hours agomessage-square21fedilinkfile-text
This is funny to me because san-disk literally means no disk, same as how sans serif means no serifs. https://www.westerndigital.com/ https://shop.sandisk.com/
minus-squareteft@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up50·16 hours agoThe san in sandisk is a replacement for sun not for sans. They basically didn’t want to be confused with Sun Microsystems so they renamed themselves.
minus-squareadarza@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up21·edit-216 hours agothat is true, it was originally ‘sundisk’. the ‘new’ name (from 1995), though, is a rather clever double play on words. sandisk -> sans disk (no disk) sandisk -> sand disk (made from sand)
minus-squareNollij@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·15 hours agoAlso, “San disk” is very different, linguistically, from “SanDisk”. Would you buy a set of dining room furniture from a brand called Notable? That’s a bit different from No table, isn’t it? Ref: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/chevrolet-nova-name-spanish/
minus-squareconfuserOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down1·14 hours agoHonestly no table sounds like a company which sells hideaway tables…that’s kinda a genius business idea actually someone should do this haha.
The san in sandisk is a replacement for sun not for sans. They basically didn’t want to be confused with Sun Microsystems so they renamed themselves.
that is true, it was originally ‘sundisk’. the ‘new’ name (from 1995), though, is a rather clever double play on words.
sandisk -> sans disk (no disk)
sandisk -> sand disk (made from sand)
Also, “San disk” is very different, linguistically, from “SanDisk”. Would you buy a set of dining room furniture from a brand called Notable? That’s a bit different from No table, isn’t it?
Ref: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/chevrolet-nova-name-spanish/
Honestly no table sounds like a company which sells hideaway tables…that’s kinda a genius business idea actually someone should do this haha.