Seagate announced earlier this week that they had acquired Xyratex, the premier maker of hard drive disk (HDD) testing gear, for $374 million which includes the $80 million the company had on its balance sheet.
Xyratex will be integrated directly into Seagate's supply chain. The deal will strengthen Seagate's "vertically integrated supply and manufacturing chain for disk drives and provide ... [ read the full article ]
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Seagate drives are hated amongst the IT community. HDDs fail within 5 years constantly and this reason is precisely why they nixed their 5 yr. warranty and lowered to 3.
While I buy Seagates if they're cheap enough.......I truly recognize that they generally fail in short times. Back yo shizzy up!!!
Perhaps this company's HDD testing utilities will allow Seagate to make a longer lasting product.
It's all subjective. I've had far more WD drives die on me than Seagates. Based on my experience for HDD failures, Hitachi, Samsung and Toshiba would be the most reliable. But I don't consider my personal experience with them to make a sweeping generalization about them. Most modern HDDs are pretty good quality and ANY can die at ANY time. Just keep reliable backups and hope if a failure occurs, it's still under warranty.
