why linus never uses western digital and seagate enterprise ssd

[aqarwaen29]

is there any reason why he havent used any seagate or western digial gold series  ssd.he always talks about using high quality ssd,but we never see him use it IF NOT CIUNTING IN KIOXIA SDD

[Average Nerd]

Just now, aqarwaen29 said:

is there any reason why he havent used any seagate or western digial gold series  ssd.he always talks about using high quality ssd,but we never see him use it IF NOT CIUNTING IN KIOXIA SDD

As far as I know, most of their archive servers capacity is on Seagate Exos drives. And Kioxia simply makes some of the highest capacity SSDs on the market, which makes them a good candidate for the higher speed servers.

[will0hlep]

22 minutes ago, aqarwaen29 said:

is there any reason why he havent used any seagate or western digial gold series  ssd.he always talks about using high quality ssd,but we never see him use it IF NOT CIUNTING IN KIOXIA SDD

It has always been my experiance that Seagate and WD arn't really the quality options in the SSD market. I like Seagate's offerings in the HDD space, but IMO when it comes to quality (cost is no object) SSDs you want to look at Samsung, Crucial, Sabrent and Kioxia (their enterprise grade SSDs are apparently good but I don't know much about their consumer side stuff).

[venomtail]

Must be some product beef or reputation cause I recall a few videos of him taking shots at WD, making fun of them. Internet consensus is that these brands aren't as reliable as they market themselves to be but can't say what his reasons are.

[GuiltySpark_]

I always find it funny when the concept of a youtuber not using something means its bad or they have a problem with it. The human brain works in mysterious ways. 

[mariushm]

Linus uses whatever sponsors give them ... Kioxia sponsored them with loads of those big capacity SSDs.

 

Seagate sponsored Linus in the past, I think you'll see him use Seagate hard drives a lot in the storage server videos.

 

Maybe WD sells enough drives that it doesn't feel like sponsoring Linus will make a difference to their bottom line at this point. 

[Eigenvektor]

23 minutes ago, GuiltySpark_ said:

I always find it funny when the concept of a youtuber not using something means its bad or they have a problem with it. The human brain works in mysterious ways. 

Especially if you consider the concept of sponsors. The product they use and tell you about is most likely a product they got paid to use/promote at some point. And as long as there's no issue with it, there's no reason for them to replace it afterwards. And if brand A continues to work for them. there's no reason for them to switch to brand B. Doesn't mean brand B is any worse.

[GuiltySpark_]

3 minutes ago, Eigenvektor said:

Especially if you consider the concept of sponsors. The product they use and tell you about is most likely a product they got paid to use/promote at some point. And as long as there's no issue with it, there's no reason for them to replace it afterwards. And if brand A continues to work for them. there's no reason for them to switch to brand B. Doesn't mean brand B is any worse.

Yep, they have "stock" of things they've used in the past for sponsored bits so if they're doing something and just need a part, its pulled from inventory of whatever is available. 

 

All too often in builds you see them using used parts since its all recycled. 

[Kisai]

1 hour ago, will0hlep said:

It has always been my experiance that Seagate and WD arn't really the quality options in the SSD market. I like Seagate's offerings in the HDD space, but IMO when it comes to quality (cost is no object) SSDs you want to look at Samsung, Crucial, Sabrent and Kioxia (their enterprise grade SSDs are apparently good but I don't know much about their consumer side stuff).

 

WD and Seagate don't have very many offerings in the SSD space to begin with. Like they have a pile of conventional spinning disk drives, because that's what their business is built on. WD acquired Sandisk, and has been using Sandisk chips in their WD drives, and is now spinning that off again. Why? Maybe because they want to use other vendors flash chips that might be cheaper or better peformers.

 

Who knows. But as long as WD owns Sandisk, they are basically compelled to eat their own dogfood. Seagate has been usind SKHynix from what I've seen on the tear downs I've seen.

 

[TetraSky]

Pretty sure they just use whatever the sponsors gave to them these days.

[seanondemand]

They use the same drives over and over again because that’s what they have in inventory/pre-installed with the programs they’re using. 

[Needfuldoer]

Same reason they keep using Sabrent Rocket M.2 SSDs in builds, and the Vault is full of Seagate hard drives: Kioxia gave them a pile of drives for either review or a project, LMG held up its end of the deal, and so that pile of drives ended up in inventory.

 

Why buy stuff when there's a suitable product sitting on the shelf?

  

8 hours ago, GuiltySpark_ said:

I always find it funny when the concept of a youtuber not using something means its bad or they have a problem with it. The human brain works in mysterious ways. 

He likes hamburgers, therefore he hates hot dogs!

 

/s

[Rocketdog2112]

On 12/21/2023 at 9:40 AM, GuiltySpark_ said:

I always find it funny when the concept of a youtuber not using something means its bad or they have a problem with it. The human brain works in mysterious ways. 

Hence we have the term "Influencers". 

Some people actually make a living being a influencer. 

Hell, I've even seen them on tv commercials refered to as a online influencer and people take what they say and recommend to heart. 

 

Nothing but a bunch a sponsor paid hacks in my book. 

[Spudbilly]

I'm not Linus, but I have used WD drives of all varieties and have never had a problem for over a decade. 

[Spindel]

I always figured Linus using SG was a sponsorship thing.

 

Personally I avoid SG as the plague because back in the days (25 years ago) if a HDD failed it was always a SG drive. They probably have fixed their quality by now but their reputation of poor reliability lives on in me and thus I would never ever use a SG drive.