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The hard drive market has shrunk considerably in the past ~5 years. What other choices are there? I remember Seagate having a not-so-great reputation in the lat
by sleepydog 6y ago
The hard drive market has shrunk considerably in the past ~5 years. What other choices are there? I remember Seagate having a not-so-great reputation in the late 00s, but now they seem like the most obvious alternative. Are we going to be stuck oscillating between ~4 vendors?
- tomatocracy 6y agoToshiba are a reasonable bet now. I have several of the N300 drives which have performed pretty well so far.
- occamrazor 6y agoThere are actually only three producers left: WD, Seagate and Toshiba.
- kevin_thibedeau 6y agoToshiba is the only one without a tarnished reputation.
- yellowapple 6y agoAnd Backblaze seemed to think highly of 'em as of 2015: https://www.backblaze.com/blog/a-look-at-backblazes-toshiba-hard-drives/ https://www.backblaze.com/blog/a-look-at-backblazes-toshiba-... It's interesting that Toshiba apparently acquired Hitachi's production assets during the HGST→WD acquisition. HGST had a pretty good reputation at the time, so I feel like this bodes well for Hitachi if their drives are indeed a continuation of that. If I do need some spinning rust at some point I guess I'll have to give 'em a whirl.
- jclulow 6y agoHave had some serious and deeply negative experiences with mixed workload performance on Toshiba disks in the last five years. Allegedly enterprise-grade 2.5" spindles, becoming deeply confused when handed both reads and writes concurrently. Test with your workload, of course, but my default position is: beware!