On Sat, Jul 06, 2013 at 05:04:11PM +0200, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: > On Sat, 2013-07-06 at 03:36 -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > > > Sure about that? Wasn't there some agreement that HGST belongs to WD but > > > produces independently...? > > > > That wouldn't make sense for either party. Where did you read this? > I vaguely remember this being part for some anti trust obligations... > > > Got a link? > The only thing I've found right now was: > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HGST#History > "It was agreed that WD would operate with WD Technologies and HGST as > wholly owned subsidiaries and they would compete in the marketplace with > separate brands and product lines." > But the next sentence about Toshiba may indicate that HGST stops 3.5" > business?! Here's another relevant link: http://www.toshiba.co.jp/about/press/2012_08/pr0801.htm I got that from this thread: http://forums.servethehome.com/f17/toshiba-announces-12-new-3-5-desktop-drives-775.html Quote from the thread, "WDC had to forfeit a Hitachi plant in China to Toshiba to gain FTC approval for its HGST acquisition." FWIW... I don't use their product, but enjoy the blog of the Backblaze company (basically a cloud backup service). There is some overlap between the storage systems they are building out and what home users often what (i.e. very cost-sensitive). Clearly, they buy a lot of hard drives, so their preference for reliable drives ought to mean something: http://blog.backblaze.com/2013/02/20/180tb-of-good-vibrations-storage-pod-3-0/ -Matt -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
