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This deserves to be cited:

HGST drives win the prize for predictability. Boring, yes, but a good kind of boring.

Also worth calling out that the worst performer, Western Digital, acquired HGST, now let's see if WD improves or HGST gets worse :)

Edit: See comment below, looks like this happened a while ago, so not likely a real factor :)

WD acquired HGST in 2012, but was strictly independent until 2015.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HGST

Thanks a bunch for the correction, I guess the answer is that potentially the acquisition has helped WD drives a little bit :)

FWIW I wonder if they're still run as something of a separate group, but given that the article says the HGST brand was removed in 2018, who knows what speed the long term merge might occur upon.

Explains why HGST brand drives are harder to come by I think.

Yeah, this wouldn’t surprise me, and it’s not super uncommon. Similar things happened with Cisco and Meraki, though I’ve heard over time that’s started to erode.

The problem is, as far as I can tell you can't really buy them anymore. At least from consumer sites, maybe they still sell large orders to enterprise customers. But it seems like WD is finally discontinuing the HGST name.

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