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I had. And with Maxtor, and Samsung, Fujitsu, Quantum, IBM, and that company I forgot the name but it is started with H.
WD was nice. Not without problems, but nothing Fujitsu MPG tier.
HGST was created after Hitachi bought IBM’s hard drive business. It was then later bought by Western Digital.
Hitachi. Their hard drives were fucking shit.
I know this is anecdotal but I have a 15 year old hitachi hdd still in use. It’s no longer for anything critical but I’m just morbidly curious how long until it explodes.
For a long time I went with IBM, then Hitachi when they bought IBM's HDD division. Never had a problem with them. Though there was the infamous "Deathstar" and the click of death.
I remember that. Those deskstar hard drives were pretty big and well priced, but they had a gigantic failure rate right out of the gate. But, by then, both Seagate and Western Digital had serious standing in the hard drive game, and people weren’t going to IBM for hard drives anymore.
But, the “click of death“ didn’t start with those drives, it just happened at such a high rate, that is how most people became familiar with that symptom of hard drive failure.
Yeah, Hitachi.