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| Wester digital also refuses warranty claims by private customers for OEM drives, which constitute the main mass of drives sold by the Internet retailers. | Wester digital also refuses warranty claims by private customers for OEM drives, which constitute the main mass of drives sold by the Internet retailers. | ||
| After acquiring, Western Digital started shipping ] and "Recertified" second-hand Ultrastar drives from data-centers, which is actively used by the Internet cons, selling them as new. | After acquiring, Western Digital started shipping ] and "Recertified" second-hand Ultrastar drives from data-centers cheaply in large amounts, which is actively used by the Internet cons, selling them as new. | ||
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Brand of hard disk drives by Western DigitalUltrastar is a Western Digital brand of enterprise-class high performance 3.5-inch hard disk drives (HDDs) and solid-state drives (SSDs). For years the product line holds a reputation of the most reliable magnetic storage on the market.
History
The brand was originally introduced by IBM in 1994 for enterprise-level HDDs together with home-computing oriented Deskstar model. These drives were based on revolutionary metalized glass disk technology. In 2003 IBM's HDD business was acquired by Hitachi, reorganized as Hitachi Global Storage Technologies(HGST) which was sold, splitting the business between Western Digital and Toshiba in 2012. The part acquired by Western Digital has retained the "HGST Ultrastar" brand name. Western Digital continued using the HGST prefix on product labels, slowly phasing it out. This resulted in that some models were sold under both HGST and WD branding simultaneously (e.g. the HGST Ultrastar He10 and WD Ultrastar HC510 are the same models of HDD).
These drives are typically used with enterprise computer systems. The two 1994 models, the 10.8 GB Ultrastar2 and the 8.7 GB Ultrastar2 XP were offered with a variety of interfaces including Fast SCSI, Fast-Wide SCSI, SCA 80-pin connectors, and Serial Storage Architecture. Evaluations units were available in the third quarter of 1995.
Current HDD models are offered with capacities up to 28 TB and with SATA or SAS interfaces. Current SSD models are offered with capacities up to 61.44 TB and with SATA and NVMe interface.
Controversies
The IBM's revolutionary technology of metal-coated glass plates initially was plagued with bad adhesion of the metal layer and its consequent delamination with irreparable disk failure. This problem was particularly common in sibling Deskstar DTLA series drives.
As of January 2025, Western Digital follows dishonest internal policy of refusing to update the warranty status (warranty start date) for the drives purchased 1 year and later after manufacturing. This effectively decimates the promised 5-years warranty for drives purchased from the retailer stocks to shorter terms.
Wester digital also refuses warranty claims by private customers for OEM drives, which constitute the main mass of drives sold by the Internet retailers.
After acquiring, Western Digital started shipping "Refurbished" and "Recertified" second-hand Ultrastar drives from data-centers cheaply in large amounts, which is actively used by the Internet cons, selling them as new.
See also
References
- ^ "Data Center Storage Solutions" (PDF). Western Digital. Retrieved May 22, 2021.
- "Product Manual: Ultrastar DC HC510 (He10) OEM Specification - SATA models". UserManual.wiki. Retrieved 2021-10-11.
- Francis, Bob (October 17, 1994). IBM's disk drive family has three new members. Infoworld. p. 40. Retrieved May 23, 2021.
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