One of the biggest issues here is that they flagrantly aimed to mislead the consumers. They switched drives for an established line with dramatically different

One of the biggest issues here is that they flagrantly aimed to mislead the consumers. They switched drives for an established line with dramatically different performance characteristics. They then proceeded to avoid declaring this, nor did they document this in a publicly available manner, requiring external independent investigation. This is not for enterprise drives either, this is for consumer nas drives and they're marketed as such. It's pretty absurd to change an established line of products in such a manner that it no longer functions similarly in its original use case, while continuing to advertise it for that same case with absolutely 0 disclosure. Hell, when questioned about it, they avoided providing information on which drives were smr. In what world is "buy it and find out the specs for yourself" a reasonable standard of documentation?