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Comment by kogepathic | Hacker News Reader

Going to be a hard pass from me.

Western Digital has had several high profile data loss issues across multiple product lines: Western Digital SN850 [1], SanDisk Extreme [2].

Western Digital's response has been very PR and not at all helpful toward the people who have lost data due to the faults in their products.

Storage products have one job: reliably store your data. WD has shown lately that you roll the dice if your choose their products.

[1] https://community.frame.work/t/tracking-wd-black-sn850-sudde...

[2] https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/05/sandisk-extreme-ssds...

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Name a storage brand without such a reputation?

There's a reason the usual advice is "Backup", not "Choose a good vendor of storage products".

Hitachi. Was too high quality to survive in lemon market.

Hitachi (HGST) was originally IBM's hard drive divison as ksec said, known for their Deathstar drives.

HGST (now owned by WD) never seemed to acquire a bad reputation. Always top of the charts in Backblaze's drive statistics. Longest warranties. I was sad when they got bought. Their factory still seems to produce better drives than WD in general, as of a couple years ago.

HGST itself came from IBM hard disk and the early days of HGST HDD were far from perfect.

Although Since then they have managed at least 15 years of decent reputation.

IBM drives were almost perfect :) I still dont know what the problem with Deskstar GXP was, were those firs IBM drives with Hoya glass platters? After fixing this one problem they became the best drives on the market under Hitachi.

> Name a storage brand without such a reputation?

Sorry, I should have included the qualifier recent.

Western Digital has had several recent high profile data loss issues

Of course you won't find a storage vendor with a spotless history, but Western Digital flash devices are spontaneously failing in the past 2 years and there's no solid indication that they've actually fixed the root cause in the affected products.

Storage devices aren't 100% reliable, and nobody is claiming them to be.

Backups and RAIDs is how we deal with that.

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