Looks like a marketing piece publicizing that CERN is using WD HDD products at scale with no technical details. To make matters worse, the WD product links don’t even work!
CERN publicizing about their HGST Ultrastar use [0] in 2013 was what got me started buying their drives and I never had issues with them. HGST is now part of Western Digital [1].
The last time I had to buy disks I switched to Seagate Exos X and thought I'll continue buying them. I think it was one of the Backblaze Drive Stats which made me buy them. I like the drives.
So CERN is now doing again such an advertising campaign:
> When Bonfillou shared the requirements from the next generation collider, the team suggested testing the company’s new series of JBODs (Just a Bunch of Drives), the Ultrastar hybrid storage platforms.
Since the project is expected to start in 2029, add about at least 5 more years for CERN to collect data on the drive stats, that's a long time to wait.
Does anyone here know if WD's Ultrastar are still as good as back then, when HGST was HGST? Was it just a brand change and all the rest, R&D-team, design, production, was still the same, separate to WD?
qwertox|1 year ago
The last time I had to buy disks I switched to Seagate Exos X and thought I'll continue buying them. I think it was one of the Backblaze Drive Stats which made me buy them. I like the drives.
So CERN is now doing again such an advertising campaign:
> When Bonfillou shared the requirements from the next generation collider, the team suggested testing the company’s new series of JBODs (Just a Bunch of Drives), the Ultrastar hybrid storage platforms.
Since the project is expected to start in 2029, add about at least 5 more years for CERN to collect data on the drive stats, that's a long time to wait.
Does anyone here know if WD's Ultrastar are still as good as back then, when HGST was HGST? Was it just a brand change and all the rest, R&D-team, design, production, was still the same, separate to WD?
[0] https://rog.asus.com/articles/news/hgst-ships-6tb-ultrastar-...
[1] https://www.westerndigital.com/en-us/products/internal-drive...