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Looks like they have been moving away from Seagate to Toshiba in the last two years. I assume it's because of Seagate's quality issues.
by myth_drannon 4y ago
Looks like they have been moving away from Seagate to Toshiba in the last two years. I assume it's because of Seagate's quality issues.
- toast0 4y agoIn the past, they've said that availability and price are their biggest factors, as long as reliability is ok. Their architecture allows for a pretty high failure rate, especially if pre-failure indicators allow them to migrate data from the drive before it fails. Moving to any particular drive probably indicates bulk purchasing availability at reasonable prices more than anything else.
- vxNsr 4y agoThey go over this in the article: below a certain failure threshold, which they don’t appear to have hit, it’s still cost effective to go with the less reliable drive if it’s cheaper.