Talk:HGST

HGST brand not defunct?

The article states that the remaining products are now marketed under the 'western digital' name but this doesn't seem to be true. There are still plenty of HGST branded products on the market and large online storage companies like Backblaze are still buying thousands of them and identifying them as HGST in their drive failure statistics. Is this just a case of >1 year old stock still being sold? Loweredtone (talk) 17:03, 4 December 2019 (UTC)

Where they come from is an interesting question but the evidence is the brand is defunct as follows:

• The two references in the article
• HGST webpage links to the WD homepage
• There are no HGST products listed at the WD site
• The last press release by WD that mentioned HGST is dated Nov 29, 2017

Tom94022 (talk) 18:45, 4 December 2019 (UTC)

Thanks for the info, I had another look and it seems that WD have kept the serial numbers of the old HGST products the same and/or companies are marketing them as HGST drives when they're actually now WD drives. Loweredtone (talk) 11:21, 5 December 2019 (UTC)

Remove sourcing tag

Removing 7 year old sourcing tag by @Ringbang: that no longer appears relevant given the many intervening updates. The article is unlikely to ever be substantially updated as the subject company is now defunct. Tom94022 (talk) 16:12, 1 May 2020 (UTC)

HGST Not Defunct, Part 2

"By 2018, the HGST brand had been phased out, with its remaining products now marketed under the Western Digital name."

Recent publish tech article shows that HGST HDs have the lowest failure rate, so I go off to NewEgg to find a replacement 4Tbyte HD for my RAID, and there are many options, but then I remember this Article from a year ago, and came back to see if it's printed a retraction, or clarification and it does not appear to be the case. Anyways, HGST seems to be alive and well, and selling the most-reliable HDs being made currently. Just go to NewEgg and take a look-see. No clue what kind of oddball chemical's this Article's editors are ingesting, but when Wikipedia and my own two eyes are in conflict, I believe what I'm looking at and wonder why Wikipedia is so consistently wrong about so many things and so frequently. Maybe it has something to do with institutional myopia and speech censorship to the extent that intelligent White people want nothing to do with Wikipedia, because it's Communist, and anti-White.~2026-38645-73 (talk) 00:10, 27 September 2026 (UTC)