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10 Dec 2023 | 3
A cheap crappy product
Toshiba's posturing here reminds me of the sorry Quantum BigFoot drives. Quantum moved to a new process for sputtering magnetic media onto drive platter material. The results were below mediocre in terms of reliability. So Quantum built 5.25" IDE drives using the crummy platters. The reasoning was that the surface area of a 5.25" drive was over 2.5x of a 3.5" drive, so the added area would compensate for all the bad spots on the drive media. Quantum even conned Compaq into using the Bigfoot. What a mistake that was. Very high rate of failure.
You know what will happen with the cheaper and less durable Toshiba SSDs. People will rationalize buying them on lower price, and deploy them in heavy use environments, where they will fail all too soon. And Toshiba will get another black mark alongside its awful laptops and perhaps more awful laptop drives.
Toshiba is in deep doo-doo as a company.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
