My first “private” hard drive, that was all my own, was a WD external. It was a birthday gift from my parents. Ever since then I had purchased WD drives and rec

My first “private” hard drive, that was all my own, was a WD external. It was a birthday gift from my parents. Ever since then I had purchased WD drives and recommended them. I used them exclusively in every computer I built and used them exclusively whenever I needed external storage. They were hanging on a thread as far as I was concerned when they shipped NAS drives with SMR. I was burned by that. I’ve moved to Seagate now. WD has lost all the trust I had in them. I’m soon buying over 100TB worth of drives and not one of them will be WD.