Careful readers will see the Note at the very bottom of the Backblaze article:
"9-30-2014 – We were nicely asked by the folks at HGST to replace the name Hitachi with the name HGST given that HGST is no longer an Hitachi company. To that end we have changed Hitachi to HGST in this post and in the graph."
The stellar reliability of the now-labeled "HGST" drives actually comes from the older "Hitachi" drives, and it's not clear whether today's "HGST" drives are coming from the same factories, using the same designs and tooling, as the old "Hitachi" drives. Check out this article:
Also check out this article that shows pictures of Toshiba-branded hard drives "Made in China by Hitachi":
I've been buying Hitachi drives exclusively for many years, but have recently started to see more failures in HGST drives than previously. So last fall I decided to buy a dozen Toshiba drives (2TB 7200rpm SATA) and so far they have been flawless, though it's too early to judge their reliability.
On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 12:50 PM, bruno@mansi.demon.co.uk [Avid-L2] <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
Have a look at this report...
https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-reliability-update-september-2014/
Makes interesting reading.
Bruno
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