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HGST still has a good reputation, due to top backblaze stats.
by MrBuddyCasino 7y ago
HGST still has a good reputation, due to top backblaze stats.
- dragontamer 7y agoHGST was bought by WD, and then parts of it were forcibly sold off to Toshiba for anti-trust reasons.
- Wowfunhappy 7y agoThey were bought by WD a few years back.
- loeg 7y ago2012 in fact. I thought it was much more recent, myself.
- MrBuddyCasino 7y agoThey lead the Backblaze charts since years, so having been bought doesn't seem to matter much?
- loeg 7y agoThey were osntensibly a fully independent subsidiary (for antitrust reasons) through 2015. For the years after that: yes, it seems WD did not want to destroy the high-quality reputation and engineering excellence they paid $4B for.