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I guess we are boycotting WD now or voting with our wallets saying how garbage a response this is. What’s a good alternative to WD reds?

• LeifCarrotson 7y ago
  Sadly, I've bought a lot of WD over the years. Seagate seems to be a minefield, HGST is owned by WD, leaving Toshiba as the only remaining option. Looks like the N300 is their line of NAS-optimized drives: https://www.toshiba-storage.com/products/toshiba-internal-hard-drives-n300/ https://www.toshiba-storage.com/products/toshiba-internal-ha... https://pcpartpicker.com/products/internal-hard-drive/#m=111&t=5200,5400,5700,5760,5900,7200,10000,10025,10500,10520,15000&f=2&sort=ppgb&page=1 https://pcpartpicker.com/products/internal-hard-drive/#m=111... They also have surveillance video storage drives and enterprise drives that might do well in the same applications.
  • 3131s 7y ago
    According to this, Toshiba has been doing the same thing... https://www.tomshardware.com/news/sneaky-marketing-toshiba-seagate-wd-smr-drives-without-disclosure https://www.tomshardware.com/news/sneaky-marketing-toshiba-s...
    • Tijdreiziger 7y ago
      But Toshiba did it on their desktop drives, instead of on NAS drives which you buy specifically for their reliability