Comment on Western Digital is already sold out of hard drives for all of 2026 — chief says some long-term agreements for 2027 and 2028 already in place

• CHOPSTEEQ@lemmy.ml ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I know this is anecdotal but I have a 15 year old hitachi hdd still in use. It’s no longer for anything critical but I’m just morbidly curious how long until it explodes.

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• remedia@piefed.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  For a long time I went with IBM, then Hitachi when they bought IBM’s HDD division. Never had a problem with them. Though there was the infamous “Deathstar” and the click of death.

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  • homes@piefed.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I remember that. Those deskstar hard drives were pretty big and well priced, but they had a gigantic failure rate right out of the gate. But, by then, both Seagate and Western Digital had serious standing in the hard drive game, and people weren’t going to IBM for hard drives anymore.

    But, the “click of death“ didn’t start with those drives, it just happened at such a high rate, that is how most people became familiar with that symptom of hard drive failure.

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• Lembot_0006@programming.dev ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Yeah, Hitachi.

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