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Re:WD My Book users wake up to find their data deleted by nacs on Friday June 25, 2021 @12:48PM (#27633264)
What are you using now?

Seagate is the other big consumer brand and they also have their own set of issues. Anecdotally, I've had multiple Seagate drives die within a year or 2 whereas WD ones have kept going for years longer.

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Re:WD My Book users wake up to find their data deleted by Nexxxeh on Friday June 25, 2021 @02:37PM (#27634674)
Toshiba is the remaining option. I don't end up getting through many drives a year, but N300 and above are my go-to drives now for NAS, NVR etc.
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Re:WD My Book users wake up to find their data deleted by lrem on Friday June 25, 2021 @03:04PM (#27634951)
Seagate's anecdotal failure rate was why I kept to WD. Backblaze's numbers convinced me this is not a problem I need to worry about in the present. Seagate had much better price/performance than Toshiba in my local market when I last needed drives, so it's what I got.
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