Does HGST still make hard drives?

Does HGST still make hard drives?

Hard drives and solid-state drives Phased out after discontinuation of HGST brand. Western Digital-branded successors are 3.5-inch variants of WD Blue and Black HDDs, and for Deskstar NAS drives also WD Red.

Is HGST a good HDD?

HGST drives consistently performed well in Backblaze’s reliability study. They’re not always the best, but they’re almost always better than Seagate drives, and better than Western Digital’s own drives for that matter.

Is HGST a Hitachi?

Hitachi (now HGST, a subsidiary of Western Digital) has the lowest failure rates across the makes and models surveyed. Western Digital itself came in second, with numbers only slightly less impressive than HGST’s. “It’s hard to beat the current crop of 4TB drives from HGST and Seagate,” Backblaze said in its blog post.

Is HGST a SSD?

HGST Ultrastar SSD400M Enterprise MLC Solid State Drives The synergistic relationship between HGST’s new throughput-enhancing SSDs and traditional HDDs provides cost effective, end-to-end enterprise-class storage solutions, delivering reliability, compatibility, capacity, cost and system performance.

Which hard drive last longest?

Which hard drive brands last the longest? Short answer: HGST (rebranded name for Hitachi) drives generally last longer than Seagate and Western Digital.

When did Western Digital buy HGST?

2012
In 2012, Western Digital acquired HGST and it was planned that HGST would continue with its own brand name and product lines.

What kind of hard drive does HGST Deskstar use?

HGST 4TB Deskstar NAS HDD Review written by Mark Kidd April 19, 2014 The HGST Deskstar NAS is built on HGST’s 3.5-inch 7,200RPM Deskstar consumer drive platform and is intended for consumer and small business NAS appliances which are typically sold diskless.

What is the price of the HGST NAS drives?

The HGST NAS drives are shipping now in 3TB and 4TB capacities with street pricing of $140 and $195 respectively. Our review units are 8x 4TB.

What is the HGST Deskstar NAS 4TB IOPS?

The HGST Deskstar NAS 4TB achieves a respectable result of 166,231 read IOPS and 166,737 write IOPS. The synthetic fileserver workload uses combinations of transfers meant to simulate the I/O activities of fileserver storage at steady state.

What is the HGST Ultrastar 7k4000?

. . HGST Ultrastar 7K4000 is the world’s first 4TB 7200 RPM hard drive with a 2.0 million hours MTBF specification and backed by a full 5-year warranty, originally offered with SATA 6Gb/s interface. Ultrastar 7K4000 represents the sixth-generation HGST 5-platter design, which has been field proven by top server and storage OEMs and Internet giants.