![]() ![]() This acquisition meant there would be more suppliers of 3.5” form-factor hard drives than the existing two (Seagate and Western Digital). Toshiba got back into the 3.5” form-factor hard drive business in 2012, when it acquired the production assets from Hitachi as part of Western Digital’s purchase of Hitachi. In our experience with Toshiba drives, here’s what we’ve learned so far. ![]() We’ve had one Storage Pod filled with Toshiba 3TB drives deployed for two years and we recently deployed Pods with 4TB and 5TB Toshiba drives. From HGST to Seagate to Western Digital hard drives, we’ve charted drive hours, plotted failure rates, reported on drive temperature, and more. Over the past year or so, we’ve covered the virtues and vices of nearly all the different hard drives we use in our Backblaze Storage Pods.
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