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Name a storage brand without such a reputation? There's a reason the usual advice is "Backup", not "Choose a good vendor of storage products".
by faeriechangling 3y ago
Name a storage brand without such a reputation?
There's a reason the usual advice is "Backup", not "Choose a good vendor of storage products".
- rasz 3y agoHitachi. Was too high quality to survive in lemon market.
- vel0city 3y agoHitachi (HGST) was originally IBM's hard drive divison as ksec said, known for their Deathstar drives.
- benlivengood 3y agoHGST (now owned by WD) never seemed to acquire a bad reputation. Always top of the charts in Backblaze's drive statistics. Longest warranties. I was sad when they got bought. Their factory still seems to produce better drives than WD in general, as of a couple years ago.
- ksec 3y agoHGST itself came from IBM hard disk and the early days of HGST HDD were far from perfect. Although Since then they have managed at least 15 years of decent reputation.
- rasz 3y agoIBM drives were almost perfect :) I still dont know what the problem with Deskstar GXP was, were those firs IBM drives with Hoya glass platters? After fixing this one problem they became the best drives on the market under Hitachi.
- kogepathic 3y ago> Name a storage brand without such a reputation? Sorry, I should have included the qualifier recent. Western Digital has had several recent high profile data loss issues Of course you won't find a storage vendor with a spotless history, but Western Digital flash devices are spontaneously failing in the past 2 years and there's no solid indication that they've actually fixed the root cause in the affected products.