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Okay, I am confused. It was only a year ago that Western Digital bought Hitachi's hard drive division. Does this mean they are selling their own 3.5" manufacturing process and moving strictly to using what they bought from Hitachi, or does this sale include what they bought from Hitachi?
However you slice it, the hard drive industry, which has already been a giant bag of suck for the last several years, is about to get worse. :(
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Western Digital ditching 3.5" hard drives?
Im hoping they will do a price drop here soon and Im gonna stock up on 1TB Hitachi deskstars and thumb my nose at all the foolishness then wait for SSD prices to come down usually I wouldnt say this but the govt needs to look into the HDD industry for price fixing and monopolization issues but yeah a big bag of suck when we are forced to store all our data somewhere n someone elses cloud and it wont belong to us anymore
Yeah, the problem with this is that SSDs aren't the Holy Grail either. If you want to enter the depths of despair, go to Newegg and start reading reviews on SSDs. When you realize how high the failure rate and how short the lifespan, it will make you want to start using stone tablets for data storage. :(
The whole storage industry is pretty much a disaster right now.
The whole storage industry is pretty much a disaster right now.
yeah a friend was trying to tell me to stay away from SSDs because of their short lifespan but when we converted the hours into years it was well over 10 years (this could be different now I havent read the reviews or info lately) and from what Ive heard Patrick Norton say only certain SSD drives are prone to high failure rate and to stick with the intel drives for now but yeah its disamal and its dismal for a reason they want us to move our data to the cloud and pay for the privilege and then snoop our files for illegal files or warez and claim ownership of our videos photos and songs even if this werent the case Id still refuse to put my stuff on a cloud because some days we dont have internet thanks to Florida Flicker and flash and I still may need to work on my files. Sorry I cant take a "rain" day because the cloud is down or my internet is down the Web Development show MUST go on!
Certainly they are all rated for MTBF that would be acceptable. The problem is that very few of them actually live up to the claimed MTBF... at least according to all the reviews I have been reading. I'm sure some do, but quality control isn't consistent enough for me to want to trust any of them any more than I would trust a standard hard drive. Every brand of hard drive I've dealt with in the past few years is doing good to last between 2 and 3 years, often less. The industry has to stop focusing on storage volume and spend their R&D on reliability first. It's getting ridiculous.
Seems like Chinese commerce regulators agree with you:
finance.sina.com.cn/chanjing/b/20120302/2103115031...
Not looking good for the WD/HGST merger. Which is good for us, far as I can see.
finance.sina.com.cn/chanjing/b/20120302/2103115031...
Not looking good for the WD/HGST merger. Which is good for us, far as I can see.
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