What happened to HGST hard drives?

More than six years after acquisition, the HGST name is disappearing from drives, though influence from the former Hitachi division remains. As part of a branding realignment following a series of acquisitions, Western Digital is spinning down the HGST brand.

What happened to HGST hard drives?

More than six years after acquisition, the HGST name is disappearing from drives, though influence from the former Hitachi division remains. As part of a branding realignment following a series of acquisitions, Western Digital is spinning down the HGST brand.

How good is HGST HDD?

HGST has been proven to be a reliable brand in recent industry tests. This 7200 rpm drive is faster than the more common 5400 rpm drives in this price range. The SATA-III spec of 6 Gbps applies to the SATA interface speed, but real world data transfer rates never get close to that.

What does HGST stand for?

HGST

Acronym Definition
HGST Helicopter Gunnery Skills Test (US Army)
HGST Human General Systems Theory
HGST High-Speed Ground Transportation
HGST High Growth Shares Trust

Does HGST make external hard drives?

HGST develops advanced hard disk drives, enterprise-class solid state drives, and innovative external storage solutions and services to store, preserve and manage the world’s most valued data.

Which hard drive last longest?

A Hard Drive’s Life Span They found that 90% of hard drives survive for three years and 80% for four years. But this number varied across brands. Western Digital and Hitachi hard drives lasted much longer than Seagate’s in Backblaze’s study.

Did WD buy Hitachi?

WD has announced that the acquisition of Hitachi Global Storage Technologies is now complete in a deal worth $3.9 billion in cash and 25 million worth of shares, valued at $0.9 billion. WD is now the world’s largest hard drive manufacturer.

Which hard drive lasts the longest?

HGST was still the most reliable overall. In 2016, the latest report, Seagate returned to its position as the hard drive brand with the highest failure rate, followed by Western Digital. Toshiba beat both of them, but Hitachi held firm at number one with the lowest annual failure rates.

Where is Seagate made?

In addition to Singapore, Seagate manufactures hard-disk media in Milpitas, Calif., and Northern Ireland.

What company owns SanDisk?

Western Digital
Western Digital has now officially purchased flash memory manufacturer SanDisk after regulator approval was passed earlier this week. The agreement between the two storage companies was originally announced last October in a deal worth nearly $19 billion.