So if seagate isn’t an option, and WD isn’t an option because of the SMR bait and switch, what hard drives are recommended?
Isn’t this at least the second time Seagate have been caught out selling used hardware as new?
That is fucked up.
wtf The issue appears widespread, involving multiple retailers, including Amazon.
I don’t think I’ve ever owned a Seagate drive in the last 20 or so years. Every time I’ve been shopping for a spinning disk, there has been some ongoing controversy surrounding Seagate in one form or another that turned me off buying one.
When I was putting together my NAS, WD was selling their NAS grade drives without disclosing they were SMR. They got hit with a class action for this.
They’re all trying shady shit, no HDD will run forever, no corporation cares about you, so use whatever you want and backup your data.
I have 114TB of Seagate drives right now and they’re fine. I’d use WD too, or HGST. The fanboyism around HDDs is so strange to me.
Yep I have a Seagate array and a HGST array and a WD array, and they’ve got 50k hours and are all fine (he said knocking on wood)
isn’t that on the retailers though?
Much like how the current German government is just resold, used Nazi Germany
If you mean the AfD which are actual Nazis, they never had power yet but gain much more traction recently sadly. Even Elon Musk loves AfD but he a Nazi too, so no wonder things gained traction with his twitter/X.
Everything that were in government, was pretty left wing except the CDU which was… well they were lobbyistic but not that far right. But today they are.
SPD singnals left but turned right, FDP are also rightwing. The only option are greens who only partially forfilled their promise and the left which has a realy low chance of getting relevant results.
Oh, I didnt knew enough about SPD. I see.
The left seems like the most important choice. I hope they will be heared
