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)