[vidarh]

It's a real enough thing that the IBM DeathStar incident [1] [2] was a large factor in making IBM exit the harddisk market (sold off to Hitachi)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HGST_Deskstar

[2] http://www.astro.ufl.edu/~ken/crash/index.html

[pjc50]

But they're still in business making hard drives, under the DeskStar name. Seagate had a round of failures at one point. I'm sure there are people out there who've sworn off WD as well.

[vidarh]

Who? If you're referring to IBM, then they're not. IBM sold off their entire hard-disk division to Hitachi (which a few years ago sold it off to WD).

If you're referring to Hitachi, then they did continue it, yes, but they bought it on a fire-sale, and their name was not attached to the original affair, so they presumably did not see it as particularly risky.

[protomyth]

Is Seagate back to being good? We had 100 drive failures in a batch of 120 HP netbooks, and we had a large number of our server drives go down the tube. I switched to WD at that point.