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[–] Nora@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 20 hours ago (13 children)

I'm at work so I'm sorry for not being able to provide a source, but there's a website that tracks hard drive failure rates and Seagate is consistently one of the worst brands. So there's some extra facts for you.

[–] ilovededyoupiggy@sh.itjust.works 5 points 17 hours ago (10 children)

Has that always been the case, or did they just start going downhill somewhat recently? I feel like I remember Seagate being the higher end drives back in the day, the next step up from WD. Definitely doesn't seem to be the case anymore.

[–] slag@lemmy.dbzer0.com -5 points 17 hours ago (3 children)

Seagate was acquired by WD back in 2014.

[–] BlueLagoon@lemmy.ca 3 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (1 children)

There were talks about a merge around 2014, but it ultimately fell through. WD and Seagate are seperate companies.

[–] UntouchedWagons@lemmy.ca 1 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Didn't Toshiba's hard drive division get bought by someone?

[–] BlueLagoon@lemmy.ca 1 points 7 hours ago

No, but Hitachi's was bought by WD back in 2011-2012. IIRC, they sold a part of it to Toshiba though.

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