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Interesting that they appear to not be deploying WD drives?
by Exmoor 6y ago
Interesting that they appear to not be deploying WD drives?
- busterarm 6y agoHGST is WD and their Enterprise tier now.
- Exmoor 6y agoIIRC, Backblaze used to install consumer grade drives because they found that whatever they saved in increased reliability and warranty more was more than offset by the price savings with consumer drives. I didn't go through the SKU's, but I'm assuming some part of the equation changed?
- 3np 6y agoHGST is effectively a brand name of WD at this point https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HGST https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HGST