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That specific model and size had reliability issues (excessive wear) which might contribute to its low price.
by frostburg 3y ago
That specific model and size had reliability issues (excessive wear) which might contribute to its low price.
- dotancohen 3y agoAs a consumer, how would I learn that? For any arbitrary storage (not memory) that I am considering?
- frostburg 3y agoNot easily; you can look at what big buyers (cloud providers, system integrators) do, but they can get blindsided too (like with those Samsung units). Don't buy SMR hard drives.
- dotancohen 3y agoThank you, I had to look up the term. The markets are so insidious these days.
- yellow_lead 3y agoThis one failed on me last week. Albeit in a "read only state" so I could recover my data at least.