Toshiba, Seagate shipping slower SMR drives without disclosure, too

Re:Toshiba, Seagate shipping slower SMR drives without discl... by MrBuddyCasino on Saturday April 18, 2020 @12:57PM (#22909044)

HGST still has a good reputation, due to top backblaze stats.

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Re:Toshiba, Seagate shipping slower SMR drives without discl... by dragontamer on Saturday April 18, 2020 @01:28PM (#22909316)

HGST was bought by WD, and then parts of it were forcibly sold off to Toshiba for anti-trust reasons.

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Re:Toshiba, Seagate shipping slower SMR drives without discl... by Wowfunhappy on Saturday April 18, 2020 @01:00PM (#22909070)

They were bought by WD a few years back.

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Re:Toshiba, Seagate shipping slower SMR drives without discl... by loeg on Saturday April 18, 2020 @01:19PM (#22909243)

2012 in fact. I thought it was much more recent, myself.

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Re:Toshiba, Seagate shipping slower SMR drives without discl... by MrBuddyCasino on Saturday April 18, 2020 @05:15PM (#22911148)

They lead the Backblaze charts since years, so having been bought doesn't seem to matter much?

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Re:Toshiba, Seagate shipping slower SMR drives without discl... by loeg on Saturday April 18, 2020 @06:21PM (#22911605)

They were osntensibly a fully independent subsidiary (for antitrust reasons) through 2015.

For the years after that: yes, it seems WD did not want to destroy the high-quality reputation and engineering excellence they paid $4B for.

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