On: On WD Red NAS Drives

[kstrauser]

Yeah, that's terrible advice. They advertise these as high-end prosumer drives.

To the product manager at WD who is inevitably reading this: if your hardware doesn't live up to your own marketing, I'm not going to throw more money your way. I'm switching to your competition.

[magduf → kstrauser]

The WD product manager's response: "Bwahahaha!!! Seagate's drives are crap too, and we own Hitachi! Where are you going to go now? Bwahahahaha!"

[Tijdreiziger → magduf]

Toshiba's still around

[kstrauser → magduf]

My reply:

I'll take my chances with ${not_wd}. At least they can survive a rebuild, so if a drive dies early I can replace it with something else.

[imtringued → magduf]

We can always stop buying HDDs.

[magduf → imtringued]

I've read that SSDs can't be used to replace HDDs for long-term archival use: if you leave them powered off for too long, the data degrades. I can store data long-term on a regular HDD and stick in a closet or safe-deposit box and then get it out after a few years, plug it in, and read it just fine.

[colejohnson66 → imtringued]

If you’re suggesting switching to SSDs, WD owns SanDisk