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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Never touching another WD product with a ten foot pole.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Why I have not heard of them being a risky company to buy from, or am I misinformed?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

Yeah same. I have plenty of WD Black HDDs and SSD's and never once had issues with any of them. Am I out of the loop?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Their most recent products have shown very high failure rates and they refuse to acknowledge the problem.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

For HDDs, they seem to have a better reputation than Seagate. That being said, I usually buy their Gold "enterprise class" HDD drives.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

How so?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Yeah, was gonna say. Waiting for Samsung or SanDisk to do it. WD is quite the gamble.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

WD owns SanDisk and has for some time.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

I didn't know that.

Their products are not at the same quality tho, or at least don't seem to perform the same.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

They own sandisk and the sandisk fiasco is what I’m partly referring to. SanDisk is terrible.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Oh damn, totally missed all this going down. Been reading up on a bit now, such a shame. :/