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Going to be a hard pass from me. Western Digital has had several high profile data loss issues across multiple product lines: Western Digital SN850 [1], SanDis
by kogepathic 2y ago
Going to be a hard pass from me.
Western Digital has had several high profile data loss issues across multiple product lines: Western Digital SN850 [1], SanDisk Extreme [2].
Western Digital's response has been very PR and not at all helpful toward the people who have lost data due to the faults in their products.
Storage products have one job: reliably store your data. WD has shown lately that you roll the dice if your choose their products.
[1] https://community.frame.work/t/tracking-wd-black-sn850-sudden-death/40377 https://community.frame.work/t/tracking-wd-black-sn850-sudde...
[2] https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/05/sandisk-extreme-ssds-keep-abruptly-failing-firmware-fix-for-only-some-promised/ https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/05/sandisk-extreme-ssds...
- faeriechangling 2y agoName a storage brand without such a reputation? There's a reason the usual advice is "Backup", not "Choose a good vendor of storage products".
- rasz 2y agoHitachi. Was too high quality to survive in lemon market.
- vel0city 2y agoHitachi (HGST) was originally IBM's hard drive divison as ksec said, known for their Deathstar drives.
- benlivengood 2y agoHGST (now owned by WD) never seemed to acquire a bad reputation. Always top of the charts in Backblaze's drive statistics. Longest warranties. I was sad when they got bought. Their factory still seems to produce better drives than WD in general, as of a couple years ago.
- ksec 2y agoHGST itself came from IBM hard disk and the early days of HGST HDD were far from perfect. Although Since then they have managed at least 15 years of decent reputation.
- rasz 2y agoIBM drives were almost perfect :) I still dont know what the problem with Deskstar GXP was, were those firs IBM drives with Hoya glass platters? After fixing this one problem they became the best drives on the market under Hitachi.
- kogepathic 2y ago> Name a storage brand without such a reputation? Sorry, I should have included the qualifier recent. Western Digital has had several recent high profile data loss issues Of course you won't find a storage vendor with a spotless history, but Western Digital flash devices are spontaneously failing in the past 2 years and there's no solid indication that they've actually fixed the root cause in the affected products.
- snvzz 2y agoStorage devices aren't 100% reliable, and nobody is claiming them to be. Backups and RAIDs is how we deal with that.