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Conversely WD, particularly their RED drives, have gone to shit. Whatever HGST is doing they must be doing it in spite of WD management.
by rpgmaker 11y ago
Conversely WD, particularly their RED drives, have gone to shit. Whatever HGST is doing they must be doing it in spite of WD management.
- tw04 11y agoThe reason HGST drives are still so reliable is because 4 years later the merger still hasn't closed. We can thank China for that. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/10/19/mofcom_says_yes_wd_hgst_merger/ http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/10/19/mofcom_says_yes_wd_h... Of course, the reality is China wanted a piece of WD, and used the merger as leverage to get it. I would expect by 2017, HGST drives are just as shit as WD. Which is unfortunate, because the Japanese designed one hell of a hard drive.
- currysausage 11y agoThank you for sharing this! I actually was naive enough to believe that WD would continue to let HGST operate as a seperate entity. There is probably some good news in the article though, for what it's worth: "At that time John Cyne ran WD. He since retired, with HGST bss Steve Milligan taking on his job." ... "In other news Western Digital has announced a new executive management team, and it looks almost like HGST executed a reverse take-over of Western Digital." ... "A person who was close to the corporate action in Western Digital and HGST said: 'All key positions are with HGST people; it's a reverse buyout. First HGST took Coyne's money to buy themselves (probably with a clause that Milligan is becoming CEO) and then they watched WD dismantling itself.'"