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This deserves to be cited: HGST drives win the prize for predictability. Boring, yes, but a good kind of boring.
by jaclaz 6y ago
This deserves to be cited:
HGST drives win the prize for predictability. Boring, yes, but a good kind of boring.
- codezero 6y agoAlso worth calling out that the worst performer, Western Digital, acquired HGST, now let's see if WD improves or HGST gets worse :) Edit: See comment below, looks like this happened a while ago, so not likely a real factor :)
- dv_dt 6y agoWD acquired HGST in 2012, but was strictly independent until 2015. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HGST https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HGST
- codezero 6y agoThanks a bunch for the correction, I guess the answer is that potentially the acquisition has helped WD drives a little bit :)
- dv_dt 6y agoFWIW I wonder if they're still run as something of a separate group, but given that the article says the HGST brand was removed in 2018, who knows what speed the long term merge might occur upon. Explains why HGST brand drives are harder to come by I think.
- codezero 6y agoYeah, this wouldn’t surprise me, and it’s not super uncommon. Similar things happened with Cisco and Meraki, though I’ve heard over time that’s started to erode.
- cactus2093 6y agoThe problem is, as far as I can tell you can't really buy them anymore. At least from consumer sites, maybe they still sell large orders to enterprise customers. But it seems like WD is finally discontinuing the HGST name.