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Western Digital-branded drives not showing on BackBlaze hard drive reliability tables probably left WD in a blindspot for people looking for reliable drives any
by NortySpock 6y ago
Western Digital-branded drives not showing on BackBlaze hard drive reliability tables probably left WD in a blindspot for people looking for reliable drives anyways.
https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-stats-q2-2019/ https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-stats-q2-2019/
https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-hard-drive-stats-q1-2020/ https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-hard-drive-stats-q1...
- ksec 6y agoHGST is under Western Digital.
- syshum 6y agoHGST brand was killed, UltraStar is now WD Branded not HGST
- arminiusreturns 6y agoI've been reading the backblaze report since it started coming out (thanks to the backblaze team as always for being so transparent!). It become obvious to me as far back as 2015 that WD was a brand to avoid... and it seems by the end of 2019 backblaze had phased them almost completely out... for a reason.