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Toshiba HDD - who makes them now? Is it Hitachi?
I'm looking to buy some new 3.5" hard drives for external storage and backup. Right now there are some good prices on Toshiba drives like this:
Amazon.com: Toshiba 4TB SATA 6Gb/s 7200rpm, 128MB Cache 3.5-Inch Internal Hard Drive (PH3400U-1I72): Computers & Accessories
I'm considering both the 3TB or 4TB. I've read conflicting information about Toshiba. Some say they aquired Hitachi (WD got their 2.5" division and Toshiba got their 3.5" division). Others say that's incorrect, and Toshiba just got one of Hitachi's plants in China (one that got hit by the flooding). Then others say that isn't true either.
So what's the real story? I've read lots of information that consistently say how reliable the Hitachi drives were in recent years, so it would be nice to think the Toshiba drives are using Hitcahi technology. I also hear a lot about how unreliable Seagates are. I just hear way too many bad things about Seagate these days to trust them now, so going forward, I'd like to use another brand. I can't afford enterprise drives, so it's really just retail drives for home use I'm looking at. I know there's a million threads discussing hard drives, but I'd like to know really where Toshiba drives come from these days and if they're considered reliable compared to Seagate.
This article is also interesting, as they compare drive reliability using their own tracking.
https://www.backblaze.com/blog/a-loo...a-hard-drives/