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Re:When Solid State Drives Are Not That Solid by pjc50 on Tuesday June 16, 2015 @06:55AM (#9724925)
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.
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Re:When Solid State Drives Are Not That Solid by vidarh on Wednesday June 17, 2015 @04:19PM (#9734960)
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.

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Re:When Solid State Drives Are Not That Solid by protomyth on Tuesday June 16, 2015 @10:26AM (#9726007)
Is Seagate back to being good? We had 100 drive failures in a batch of 120 HP netbooks, and we had a large number of our server drives go down the tube. I switched to WD at that point.
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