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Surviving Conventional Wisdom

Oxide and Friends

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The Strength of a Trusted Relationship With a Sub Supplier

The last thing they want is customers crawling their supply chain and being like, oh, the lead time is X number of weeks. That's just not a path available to most in general. I think we have always felt that the strength of the relationship has bought us more than dual sourcing would have bought us. And it does tell you something about the industry that we've already done in a tired Twitter space on the firmware that caused us so much. On the the Seagate Barracuda drives, right? We should have gone all in Hitachi. Like there was night and day difference between each GSD drives and Seagate drives,. Even though they were effectively the same price and they're

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