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dandy72 wrote: Backblaze isn't shying away from that, and my conclusions seem to match their yearly reports.
Respect.
dandy72 wrote: RE: HGST...weren't they the ones that had a major flood at their manufacturing plant a decade+ ago, and subsequently had a huge batch of unreliable drives?
Dunno. I've been doing cloud everything lately, so me old and crusty with that. Never even heard of HGST until this post.  It would explain a lot though.
Jeremy Falcon
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I think HGST used to be a Hitachi brand, and I've purchased external drives from WD, and the drives inside had an HGST label. Even recent ones, so even though they might no longer promote the HGST brand (at least on the box), WD is clearly still using the name internally...
And I don't think I've had any sort of bad failure rate with the drives I have that I know are HGST.
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They were and Hitachi bought that division from IBM earlier. The flooding happened in Thailand if I recall correctly.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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Weren't the IBM drives originally branded as "deskstar" which, of course, became corrupted to death star?
I've had reasonable experiences with Hitachi and Western Digital drives - no unexpected failures before they were replaced because they were either getting old anyway, or were just replaced for more capacity.
I did have to laugh when many years ago, having just bought and installed a Fujitsu Robin drive a "very knowledgeable" friend (a technical writer journo) posted a list of drives not to be touched with a dirty stick online, and the Fujitsu was top of the stack. That drive eventually got retired some 6 years later without a hiccup when the machine it was in was upgraded.
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Alister Morton wrote: Weren't the IBM drives originally branded as "deskstar" which, of course, became corrupted to death star?
They were. I had the misfortune of buying a couple of these, and they are the only drives that catastrophically failed in service for me.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
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If you deep doin whatcha been doin, you'll keep gettin whatcha been gettin.
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In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Hi,
I'm a fan of a functional drive. I've owned WD, Seagate, Toshiba, HGST, Deskstar and a couple other no-namers. For a couple of years, my WD's were shining stars and Seagate was garbage. Then it became Deskstar and HGST with the WD and Seagate's being terminal garbage. Then Seagate's were the king of the world and WD was the dregs. From my experience (for what its worth), Seagate and WD were the consistent drives. Either really outstanding and will go forever or garbage and toss now!!
At present, I have a mixture of 1TB, 2TB and 4TB drives running. Approximately half are Seagate and half are WD. An old HGST is in the mix as well. I have a couple of Toshiba portable drives I just purchased. I purchased two portable Toshibas and one of them was DOA. Purchased another and returned the dead one to Amazon. That one is good to go.
Your mileage will vary.
Cegarman
I drink, there for I am
Illegitimum non carborundum
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Or a crackpot idea.
MSN[^]
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It's a crackpot idea, don't get sucked in.
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Stop it with link only posts. (grumpy max)
At least copy the title or the summary if there is one.
CI/CD = Continuous Impediment/Continuous Despair
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MSN[^] 18 Reasons Why Men Get Grumpier As They Age
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touché!
CI/CD = Continuous Impediment/Continuous Despair
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2 things:
(a) I see MSN still hasn't lost their habit of spreading their "[N] reasons why XYZ" type of articles over [N+M] pages (where M are just extra ad pages). So make that 19 reasons.
(b) Was there anything in there that was actually unique to men, and could not equally apply to women? Besides, aren't we're all supposed to be gender-fluid now?
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Black holes generating enormous power has been around in science fiction for a while (Arthur C. Clark - Imperial Earth (1976)). More recent in the Star Trek Universe with the Romulan D'deridex-class warbird uses an artificial quantum singularity as a power source for its warp propulsion drive.
from the Wikipedia article ( Black hole starship - Wikipedia[^])
" A black hole weighing 606,000 metric tons (6.06 × 108 kg) would have a Schwarzschild radius of 0.9 attometers (0.9 × 10–18 m, or 9 × 10–19 m), a power output of 160 petawatts (160 × 1015 W, or 1.6 × 1017 W), and a 3.5-year lifespan"
That's a lot of power from a tiny space.
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"imagine if we could produce a microscopic black hole in a particle generator."
Ah yes imagine that.
Or if we could manufacture anti-matter (or other exotic matter) really cheap.
Or if we could construct a worm hole using neutronium.
Or if we could design an build a generation ship. Or a fleet.
Or if we could create cold fusion generators.
Or if those aliens that keep zipping around would actually drop off the design specs for those faster than light drives that they must be using. And those cloaking devices. Throw in anti-gravity while they are at it.
Or if fairies were real.
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Merely for specificity due to my intimate knowledge of Space Aliens I submit those are not faster than light drives per se but bending spacetime drives.
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From that article
" which means not relying on “negative energy or superluminal matter” to make your time-bending engine work."
The haters always hate on the best ideas.
"Because if humans have any hope of one day exploring distant stars, it’ll need the help of space-bending tech that the newly-minted Warp Factory hopes to nurture."
If it was physically possible the aliens which must exist in the 200 billion trillion stars in the universe would have come calling by now.
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You mean they haven't? That's not what Betty and Barney Hill said.
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I for one praise our soon to be Robot Overlords, Couple one of those with AI you have a Terminator, please somebody who is developing them come up with an off button... We've all seen the movies! 
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