Re:Backblaze Hard Drive Stats Q2 2020
by cehrlich on Tuesday August 18, 2020 @12:09PM
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Interesting to note that this wasn't always the case - The Hitachi Deskstar line used to have the nickname "Deathstar" due to their low reliability (this was maybe 15-20 years ago)
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The DeathStar name was never used when Hitachi made the drives. Deathstar was used omwhen IBM used to make the drives
It's also worth noting that the "Deathstar" fiasco was such a disaster because previously people who cared about reliability had been selecting the IBM drives due to their excellent track record. It took only one generation (or two) of defective drives to completely ruin IBMs reputation.
Years later people noticed that the drives were highly reliable again and the Deathstar problem was a fluke. But now it's too late. All of the HDD manufacturers have been gobbled up by just two companies and all of the interesting competition is on the SSD side.