Western Digital moves away from the HGST branding
WD will be phasing out the HGST branding, perhaps not the best move? HGST HDDs gained much popularity due to strong reliability. The first move is the name change of the Western Digital Ultrastar DC HC320. The HDD, targeted at data center usage, earlier released as HGST Ultrastar 7K8.
WD feels the old branding is not in line with Western Digital’s new branding policies, mentioned WD in a blog on the Western Digital website, writes myce.
HGST’s director of HDD product line management, Lenny Sharp, writes, “all new commercial and enterprise products going forward will carry this new Western Digital branding as we transition away from the HGST brand. Western Digital has gone through a significant transformation with the integration of multiple companies. Moving to the Western Digital brand for all of our commercial and enterprise products is the first step in unifying the brands in our portfolio.”
Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (HGST) was founded in 2003, and was a merger between the hard disk drive businesses of IBM and Hitachi. In 2012, Western Digital acquired HGST and it was planned that HGST would continue with its own brand name and product lines. That era now ends. In 2015, Western Digital also acquired Sandisk, according to today’s announcement also that brand name will likely disappear for commercial and enterprise products and will be replaced by the Western Digital brand.
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Of course they did that so customer dont choose / compare between HGST and WD. I tried all hard drives brands and only HGST that I really like its reliability with fast and quiet performance. damn you WD I will go seagate next time
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Some might say HDDs fail is a matter of luck. Throughout the year, many Seagate broke on my, less fewer WD though. As for Hitachi, I still have a couple of 500GB 2.5 on my 10 years old laptop that I use every day and never gave a single problem. On my desktop, I have another Hitachi 8 year old 2TB 3.5 that again, keeps working like a champ and just recently bought 2x8TB Helium and couldn't be happier. HGST's trustworthy reputation is absolutely true.
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No one seemed to take one thing into account talking about reliability. Different countries or world regions get different quality products. Even if they are made in the same country. This is verified already many times. @Aitortxo never had problems with that. In my long computers and servers fixing career Hitachi is in my personal list of most defective drives I encountered, maybe not #1, but still.
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I have one HGST drive is 7200rpm 1TB laptop drive, it was in my ps3 for 5 years I have since took my 500gb drive in my ps4 and put that in my ps3 and put the 1TB HGST in to my ps4, is still going strong, I cant say same for the WD drives I had which all I died in 2 years, for most part I been using Seagate drives for like 25 years which well over 2 dozen of them at this point, they all still work other then normal wear and tear, other then the 1 momentum drive I got that I had in ps3 that out right failed less then 3 years