[kwlug-disc] Hard Disk Drive for NVR

[CrankyOldBugger]

I used to be a big fan of WD, but in the last few years I've been
disappointed with their spinning disks.  I've been having good luck with
Seagate.

But if it's spinning disks you want, then you owe it to yourself to check
out the stats on BackBlaze:
https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-drive-stats-for-q1-2022/



On Fri, Sep 9, 2022 at 4:47 PM Ronald Barnes <ron at ronaldbarnes.ca> wrote:

> Khalid Baheyeldin wrote on 2022-09-09 10:22:
>
> > Due to past experience with Seagate, I am trying to stay away from
> > them in favour of WD. But it seems that this Seagate has better
> > reviews than the WD Purple equivalent.
> It seems in the past year or few that the zeitgeist has come to favour
> Seagate over WD.
>
>
> Some shenanigans like you mentioned re: shingled storage and part
> numbers not reflecting that. And I'm struggling to think of other
> issues, but pretty sure there's been more shady behaviour by WD.
>
>
>
> My negative 2¢ contribution...
>
> rb
>
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