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Looks like a marketing piece publicizing that CERN is using WD HDD products at scale with no technical details. To make matters worse, the WD product links don’
by nyc_pizzadev 2y ago
Looks like a marketing piece publicizing that CERN is using WD HDD products at scale with no technical details. To make matters worse, the WD product links don’t even work!
- qwertox 2y agoCERN publicizing about their HGST Ultrastar use [0] in 2013 was what got me started buying their drives and I never had issues with them. HGST is now part of Western Digital [1]. The last time I had to buy disks I switched to Seagate Exos X and thought I'll continue buying them. I think it was one of the Backblaze Drive Stats which made me buy them. I like the drives. So CERN is now doing again such an advertising campaign: > When Bonfillou shared the requirements from the next generation collider, the team suggested testing the company’s new series of JBODs (Just a Bunch of Drives), the Ultrastar hybrid storage platforms. Since the project is expected to start in 2029, add about at least 5 more years for CERN to collect data on the drive stats, that's a long time to wait. Does anyone here know if WD's Ultrastar are still as good as back then, when HGST was HGST? Was it just a brand change and all the rest, R&D-team, design, production, was still the same, separate to WD? [0] https://rog.asus.com/articles/news/hgst-ships-6tb-ultrastar-he6-helium-filled-hard-disk-drive/ https://rog.asus.com/articles/news/hgst-ships-6tb-ultrastar-... [1] https://www.westerndigital.com/en-us/products/internal-drives/data-center-drives/ultrastar-dc-hc330-hdd?sku=0B42258 https://www.westerndigital.com/en-us/products/internal-drive...