Water Panther?

[Zarathustra[H]]

Hey,

So I am researching replacement drives for my server, and in the listings I saw a brand I have never heard of.

Does anyone know anything about this "Water Panther" brand of drives?

My first guess was that it was some Chinese copycat brand, especially with hat nonsensical name, but their website claims they are U.S. based.

Any experiences with them? Are they fairly reliable?

 

[kirbyrj]

Hey,

So I am researching replacement drives for my server, and in the listings I saw a brand I have never heard of.

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Does anyone know anything about this "Water Panther" brand of drives?

My first guess was that it was some Chinese copycat brand, especially with hat nonsensical name, but their website claims they are U.S. based.

Any experiences with them? Are they fairly reliable?

I would think it's a rebrand of some form of WD or Seagate drive. I don't think anyone else even makes spinning drives anymore.

 

[Grebuloner]

They appear to be a rebrander of at least WD white label drives, but definitely aren't making their own stuff. From their prices and warranties, I'd imagine that they are doing the B-grade resell thing. Their website isn't a total mess of poorly translated Engrish, but it's not great and really panders to the IT manager that was stuck into the position but doesn't know anything except the buzzwords. Their address is also suspect (it's a shopping center?).

"Our catalog of validated systems grows only larger, all while being drop-in ready."

"There is an ever-growing list of servers that is tested and validated to function and operate 24x7."

 

[Zarathustra[H]]

They appear to be a rebrander of at least WD white label drives, but definitely aren't making their own stuff. From their prices and warranties, I'd imagine that they are doing the B-grade resell thing. Their website isn't a total mess of poorly translated Engrish, but it's not great and really panders to the IT manager that was stuck into the position but doesn't know anything except the buzzwords. Their address is also suspect (it's a shopping center?).

"Our catalog of validated systems grows only larger, all while being drop-in ready."

"There is an ever-growing list of servers that is tested and validated to function and operate 24x7."

Yeah, that was my take as well.

Targeted towards someone who knows the brand of server they have and don't realize hard drives are pretty much universal, and doesn't want to do research.