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Aren't all of the HGSTs essentially WDs?
by Hamuko 6y ago
Aren't all of the HGSTs essentially WDs?
- louwrentius 6y agoYes, but does that explain why there are almost no WD branded drives?
- numpad0 6y agoIIRC, WD > 6TB are all 7K2 and HGST. HGST itself is "a WD company" but for antitrust reasons the corporates are separate.
- syshum 6y agoHGST has a brand was phased out years go, and the company was not separate for Anti-Trust reason WD had to sell and license some HGST assets for Anti-Trust reasons, but there was never a requirement for them to be a seperate company HGST Websites and other things today just redirect to WD, there is no new HGST branded things being made as far as I am aware
- numpad0 6y agoI still see some drivers sold online under HGST branding. Probably market dependent?
- syshum 6y agoUsed or Referbs. Maybe some old stock but at this point I doubt it... You will see "UltraStar" branding but it will be "Western Digital UltraStar" not HGST UltraStar. Some retailers may even still put HGST in the listing (i.e Amazon still has several listing for new Drives that refer to HGST) but the Packaging, offical documents, and everything that comes out of WD will not have any HGST branding on it, it will not say HGST on the drive etc