Edit: Seagate is doing the exact same thing [0], although not confirmed for NAS drives... yet. HGST is owned by WD (although the 3.5" side apparently went to To

Edit: Seagate is doing the exact same thing [0], although not confirmed for NAS drives... yet. HGST is owned by WD (although the 3.5" side apparently went to Toshiba). So that leaves Toshiba. It sucks to have to qualify drives (again?) in small businesses, thought this was a solved problem. It's more offensive they're doing it with the smaller capacities, too. (I should note SSDs don't stand up to manufacturer's claims in error scenarios, too. But that's fairly well known I think?) [0] https://blocksandfiles.com/2020/04/15/seagate-2-4-and-8tb-barracuda-and-desktop-hdd-smr/ https://blocksandfiles.com/2020/04/15/seagate-2-4-and-8tb-ba...