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“Clearly predatory”: Western Digital sparks panic, anger for age-shaming HDDs(arstechnica.com)

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Pete Hahnloser@beehaw.org
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Everyone has at least one bad story about a brand, and that experience can colour a consumer’s view indefinitely. I had a faulty WD drive in the computer I got to start college in 1997 but didn’t realize it, instead learning to reinstall Windows every six weeks. I rarely chose WD thereafter.

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BeardedGingerWonder@fedia.io
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Everyone has a bad story about a brand for sure, not every brand takes a NAS quality, NAS branded drive they charge a premium for because it’s suitable for NAS and switches the underlying tech to something that’s fundamentally unsuitable for NAS applications. Then lies about it. Fuck WD.

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Fubarberry@aiparadise.moe
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Are you sure it was a faulty drive? I had a similar experience where it got to having to reinstall windows every week, but switching to Linux fixed it.

Best I can tell it was a mandatory windows update clashing with some of the hardware I had.

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Pete Hahnloser@beehaw.org
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I didn’t know what a faulty hard drive sounded like at that time. Sticks with you. But I was playing around with NT5 betas anyway, so it turned out not to be a huge deal.

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