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Western Digital has the Most Reliable High Capacity HDDs with a Failure Rate of Under 0.35%
(www.hardwaretimes.com)
this post was submitted on 17 Nov 2023
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They also have the scummiest tactics.
Did they recall those broken by design external SSDs, or are they still trying to sell them and to blame it on the Sandisk brand?
Not to mention the SMR fiasco, as well as their deceptive marketing around the RPM their drives run at. 5400 RPM "class" isn't 5400 rpm, it's likely a binned 7200 drive.