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> I really hope some fool of a MBA doesn't wreck their ultrastar brand which used to be the HGST range

Too late. They tried to get rid of HGST and UltraStar brand and failed. So now they are still selling the same thing.

I love HGST hard disks. They don't die as much as WD and Seagate ones do.

Yes. WD did a rebranding exercise to try and get rid of HGST and UltraStar, not only did the retail channel and wholesale channel backfire, a certain large enterprise customer insist on the same HGST and UltraStar HDD, same model number, basically same everything. While HD could certainly ignore retail and wholesale, they cant ignore enterprise. So you still see UltraStar, and in many cases Wholesale are still calling them HGST.

I'm very glad that has happened, I can still buy these disks.

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