Re:When Solid State Drives Are Not That Solid
by pjc50 on Tuesday June 16, 2015 @05:29AM
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Loss of reputation isn't a real thing in this industry. Pretty much all hard drive manufacturers have had high-profile "bad" models, for example.
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Re:When Solid State Drives Are Not That Solid
by drzaiusapelord on Tuesday June 16, 2015 @09:54AM
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Only because up until recently getting in the HD game was prohibitively expensive due to the engineering and capital requirements for designing spinning disks. Now anyone can buy some flash media, a pre-cooked controller firmware, combine the two and sell at competitive rates. There are something like five or six competitive SSD makers right now and many more bottom feeders. There are two competitive spinning disk makers and its been that way for decades, ignoring the occasional small third-party player like Hitachi.
Re:When Solid State Drives Are Not That Solid
by vidarh on Tuesday June 16, 2015 @06:47AM
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It's a real enough thing that the IBM DeathStar incident [1] [2] was a large factor in making IBM exit the harddisk market (sold off to Hitachi)
But they're still in business making hard drives, under the DeskStar name. Seagate had a round of failures at one point. I'm sure there are people out there who've sworn off WD as well.
Re:When Solid State Drives Are Not That Solid
by vidarh on Wednesday June 17, 2015 @04:19PM
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Who? If you're referring to IBM, then they're not. IBM sold off their entire hard-disk division to Hitachi (which a few years ago sold it off to WD).
If you're referring to Hitachi, then they did continue it, yes, but they bought it on a fire-sale, and their name was not attached to the original affair, so they presumably did not see it as particularly risky.