WD10JPLX-00MBPT0 -> Hitachi Rebranded

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WD10JPLX-00MBPT0 -> Hitachi Rebranded

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WD10JPLX-00MBPT0 = HTS721010A9E630
Needs Hitachi ARM HTS710 family in PC3000 utility

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At least they are recognizing that HGST are better quality drives and selling them as their Black series and enterprise series drives.

Just last week I pulled some 4Tb drives from a mix-matched NAS that had failed. They were labeled as WD Red drives, but were clearly HGST as well.
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Zenz wrote: Sat Sep 08, 2018 9:47 am How can they simply rebrand an HDD like that? Isn't that deceiving the customers?
Not exactly. WD bought HGST's hard drive division, so technically they own them and can sell them under their own brand now if they want to.
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Jared wrote: Thu Nov 09, 2017 12:21 amJust last week I pulled some 4Tb drives from a mix-matched NAS that had failed. They were labeled as WD Red drives, but were clearly HGST as well.
The WD Reds (WD**EFRX drives) have terrible reliability, according to BackBlaze's 2018-Q2 long-term stats. Not what one would expect from an HGST drive.
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I have several EFRX Western Digitals (listed on HDDStockRoom) that are native Western Digital, not Hitachi.
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