While it has been quite a while now, I would have a hard time getting over the fact that I have never encountered a WD HDD that did NOT fail. Between prebuilts when I was younger, and friends/family computers I helped with. It was astonishing how pathetic the WD’s were.
Disappointing years ago when I read they acquired Seagate.
Huh. I have literally never seen a WD drive fail. I had one that started making some unsettling noises after 10+ years of use but I didn’t notice any failure until I ultimately removed it a few years later. A friend even bought a second hand Raptor once, which I thought was a terrible idea, but he had no issues with it for several years until he replaced it with an SSD.
Of course I know this is probably a very biased experience because I have never encountered WDs in a professional setting where the drives are a lot more solicited and thus more likely to fail.
Edit : also I only ever bought WD blacks which are higher end IIRC, and so did most of my acquaintances. Can’t speak for blue/reds etc
I’ve seen this claim twice now in this thread that WD bought Seagate; and I’m not saying you’re wrong, bit I legitimately don’t see this info anywhere online and I’m pretty sure neither owns the other.
Mind, I’m on mobile so it’s hard to verify things but, I suspect there’s some confusion here.
Seagate and Western digital are two seperate companies. You’re correct in that neither own or are affiliated with the other.
There were talks of a merger for years starting back in ~2014, but that fell through.
I did just find out that Seagate is the parent company to LaCie though. They used to (probably still do) make some decently tough external haard drives.
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While it has been quite a while now, I would have a hard time getting over the fact that I have never encountered a WD HDD that did NOT fail. Between prebuilts when I was younger, and friends/family computers I helped with. It was astonishing how pathetic the WD’s were.
Disappointing years ago when I read they acquired Seagate.
Huh. I have literally never seen a WD drive fail. I had one that started making some unsettling noises after 10+ years of use but I didn’t notice any failure until I ultimately removed it a few years later. A friend even bought a second hand Raptor once, which I thought was a terrible idea, but he had no issues with it for several years until he replaced it with an SSD.
Of course I know this is probably a very biased experience because I have never encountered WDs in a professional setting where the drives are a lot more solicited and thus more likely to fail.
Edit : also I only ever bought WD blacks which are higher end IIRC, and so did most of my acquaintances. Can’t speak for blue/reds etc
I’ve seen this claim twice now in this thread that WD bought Seagate; and I’m not saying you’re wrong, bit I legitimately don’t see this info anywhere online and I’m pretty sure neither owns the other.
Mind, I’m on mobile so it’s hard to verify things but, I suspect there’s some confusion here.
Seagate and Western digital are two seperate companies. You’re correct in that neither own or are affiliated with the other.
There were talks of a merger for years starting back in ~2014, but that fell through.
I did just find out that Seagate is the parent company to LaCie though. They used to (probably still do) make some decently tough external haard drives.