• @Thatuserguy
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        53 months ago

        Yeah same. I have plenty of WD Black HDDs and SSD’s and never once had issues with any of them. Am I out of the loop?

      • @[email protected]
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        13 months ago

        Their most recent products have shown very high failure rates and they refuse to acknowledge the problem.

    • Alphane MoonOPM
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      43 months ago

      For HDDs, they seem to have a better reputation than Seagate. That being said, I usually buy their Gold “enterprise class” HDD drives.

    • @Potatisen
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      23 months ago

      Yeah, was gonna say. Waiting for Samsung or SanDisk to do it. WD is quite the gamble.

      • @seaQueue
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        53 months ago

        WD owns SanDisk and has for some time.

        • @Potatisen
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          13 months ago

          I didn’t know that.

          Their products are not at the same quality tho, or at least don’t seem to perform the same.

      • @[email protected]
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        13 months ago

        They own sandisk and the sandisk fiasco is what I’m partly referring to. SanDisk is terrible.

        • @Potatisen
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          23 months ago

          Oh damn, totally missed all this going down. Been reading up on a bit now, such a shame. :/

    • Alphane MoonOPM
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      23 months ago

      I have a feeling will be seeing QLC more and more in the consumer space.

      I don’t think consumers can even buy MLC SSDs anymore now that Samsung has switched its Pro SSD line to TLC.

      • recursive_recursion [they/them]
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        god damn I didn’t realize that Samsung swapped

        although tbf I’ve been buying more TeamGroups and Corsair M.2s when they go on sale as they typically have both TLC and DRAM cache

        I don’t think consumers can even buy MLC SSDs anymore now that Samsung has switched its Pro SSD line to TLC.

        yeaa, I’d imagine you gotta pay for enterprise components from willing retailers and OEMs or on the second-hand market