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does WD still make new HGST products? How can you tell which drives are from which team, or have they been blended together?
by basch 7y ago
does WD still make new HGST products? How can you tell which drives are from which team, or have they been blended together?
- effie 7y agoSome HGST tech is Toshiba now, some of it is WD. Hard to know whether WD drive is made up to HGST snuff. If you want the best, buy helium WD drive labeled HGST. If you can't get it, then WD or Toshiba helium datacenter drives should be close.
- basch 7y agoThat's what I'm wondering though. Nearly all the WD data center drives are marketed as Ultrastar. Is this marketing, or did the HGST entity supplant WD enterprise during "integration" in the last two years? https://www.westerndigital.com/products/data-center-drives#hard-disk-hdd https://www.westerndigital.com/products/data-center-drives#h... It looks like the only surviving product names are Ultrastar and CinemaStar. Nothing is labeled HGST anymore. Most of the HGST Helium disks were SMR, if I'm not mistaken. As of now, given the two HelioSeal series, one of the two is SMR. Side Note: Hitachi had such a great thing going with their Schoolhouse Rock meets Dino DNA commercial. I wish this would have continued. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xb_PyKuI7II https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xb_PyKuI7II