schizoidman@lemm.ee to Technology@lemmy.mlEnglish · 11 hours agoGerman Seagate customers say their 'new' hard drives were actually used – resold HDDs reportedly used for tens of thousands of hourswww.tomshardware.comexternal-linkmessage-square10fedilinkarrow-up10arrow-down10cross-posted to: technology@beehaw.orgdatahoarder@lemmit.onlinehardware@lemmit.online
arrow-up10arrow-down1external-linkGerman Seagate customers say their 'new' hard drives were actually used – resold HDDs reportedly used for tens of thousands of hourswww.tomshardware.comschizoidman@lemm.ee to Technology@lemmy.mlEnglish · 11 hours agomessage-square10fedilinkcross-posted to: technology@beehaw.orgdatahoarder@lemmit.onlinehardware@lemmit.online
minus-squarederanger@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up0·9 hours agoWhen I was putting together my NAS, WD was selling their NAS grade drives without disclosing they were SMR. They got hit with a class action for this. They’re all trying shady shit, no HDD will run forever, no corporation cares about you, so use whatever you want and backup your data. I have 114TB of Seagate drives right now and they’re fine. I’d use WD too, or HGST. The fanboyism around HDDs is so strange to me.
When I was putting together my NAS, WD was selling their NAS grade drives without disclosing they were SMR. They got hit with a class action for this.
They’re all trying shady shit, no HDD will run forever, no corporation cares about you, so use whatever you want and backup your data.
I have 114TB of Seagate drives right now and they’re fine. I’d use WD too, or HGST. The fanboyism around HDDs is so strange to me.