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HGST = WD. And with seagate being kinda shitty, there seems to be only Toshiba left.

• pedrocr 7y ago
  They're the same company but not (yet?) the same drives.
  • s9w 7y ago
    Do we really know? I see no reason to trust them
    • leetbulb 7y ago
      In the past year I've had these failures: 2x WD RED 4TB (EFRX), 2x WD RED 6TB (EFRX), 1x Seagate 4TB. I have a fairly even mix that includes HGST (and a few HGST He). No HGST failures yet. I won't be buying WD RED's for a while, if ever.
      • barrkel 7y ago
        To counter that, I've been running 11x 4TB WD Red (WD40EFRX) since 2013 and zero failures, with 10 drives in RAIDZ2 and 1 warm spare. I have them in a 4U chassis in the attic, with 5 case fans blowing through; two on the rear and three across all the bays. It's a 24 bay box, but I've not yet had pressing need to fill the rest of the bays.
        • leetbulb 7y ago
          Lucky. Maybe I had a bad batch :(
  • linker3000 7y ago
    Disclaimer: I worked for HGST about 3 years ago (but in the Enterprise storage (flash)/Object store fields, not consumer/prosumer HDDs). At the time, WD was assimilating HGST's drive tech where there were cost/performance/reliability benefits to the point where quite a few 'WD' products were just relabeled HGST ones, possibly with minor firmware/logic board tweaks. I seem to recall that at the time some WD Black, and maybe Gold, models at least were rebadged HGST units. The aim at the time was to fade out the HGST brand so that everything was WD and I pretty much think that has since been done.