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This comes across as a pet peeve. If the drives are branded, marketed, and sold as HGST, then they are HGST drives. Even if Yev is wrong, it's possible that WD
by thaumaturgy 11y ago
This comes across as a pet peeve. If the drives are branded, marketed, and sold as HGST, then they are HGST drives. Even if Yev is wrong, it's possible that WD or Toshiba are maintaining HGST drives to different specifications or QA standards.
And I don't think Yev's wrong, I'm pretty sure I remember reading/hearing the same, and http://www.zdnet.com/article/western-digitals-hgst-cuts-500-singapore-jobs-shifts-production-to-thailand/ http://www.zdnet.com/article/western-digitals-hgst-cuts-500-... also suggests that WD is maintaining HGST as a separate entity.
Calling HGST drives Western Digital or Toshiba would be more confusing, not less.
- frik 11y agoEither call them Hitachi or HGST or Toshiba. But as HGST still exists as a brand name of Western Digital and new HGST drives are either 2.5 or don't resemble the old ones mentioned in the statistics, it get's quite confusing - as the statistics is often used as a buyer guide. Adding a remark somewhere on his article would help to avoid the confusion.