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[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Had good impressions and experiences with Toshiba drives. Chugged along quiet nicely.

[–] kalleboo@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Yeah our file server has 17 Toshiba drives in the 10/14 TiB sizes ranging from 2-4 years of power-on age and zero failures so far (touch wood).

Of our 6 Seagate drives (10 TiB), 3 of them died in the 2-4 year age range, but one is still alive 6 years later.

We're in Japan and Toshiba is by far the cheapest here (and have the best support - they have advance replacement on regular NAS drives whereas Seagate takes 2 weeks replacement to ship to and from a support center in China!) so we'll continue buying them.

[–] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Ah I thought I had remembered their hard drive division being aquired but I was wrong! Per Wikipedia:

At least 218 companies have manufactured hard disk drives (HDDs) since 1956. Most of that industry has vanished through bankruptcy or mergers and acquisitions. None of the first several entrants (including IBM, who invented the HDD) continue in the industry today. Only three manufacturers have survived—Seagate, Toshiba and Western Digital