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Impressive performance by HGST..
by Danihan 9y ago
Impressive performance by HGST..
- azureel 9y agoAlthough WD bought HGST [1], it is interesting WD performs worse than them. [1] https://www.wdc.com/about-wd/newsroom/announcements/wdc-acquires-hgst.html https://www.wdc.com/about-wd/newsroom/announcements/wdc-acqu...
- rkuykendall-com 9y agoIt makes sense, right? Keep selling decent quality WD branded drives to consumers who don't care for best-in-industry MTTF, often in external enclosures, but buy HGST so you also get money from super nerds.
- simonh 9y agoThe way Black & Decker bought deWalt.
- Max_Mustermann 9y agoThey bought the Cadillac of shooting nails.
- jandrese 9y agoI have heard (third hand) that WD has been pretty hands off with the HGST part of the business thus far. It remains to be seen just how long that state of affairs can last.
- gdrift 9y agoMy own Hitachi Travelstar 5K160 is now at Power_On_Hours=81569 (9.3 years) Load_Cycle_Count=16793410 It doesn't work very hard though.