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Re:Backblaze Hard Drive Stats for 2016 by kogepathic on Tuesday January 31, 2017 @12:42PM (#13533015)
It's especially interesting because Western Digital bought HGST in 2012. [0]

To my knowledge, there have been innovations in the spinning rust (ahem hard drive) market since 2012. So why is HGST, a WD subsidiary, still making much more reliable drives?

Different design teams? HGST factories instead of WD?

[0] http://m.theregister.co.uk/2012/03/09/wd_closes_hgst_buy

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Re:Backblaze Hard Drive Stats for 2016 by deelowe on Tuesday January 31, 2017 @01:27PM (#13533545)
HGST was acquired by WD, but they have very different manufacturing processes and AFAIK the design teams are still seperate.
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