News WD Moves to Settle SMR HDD False Advertising Class Action Lawsuit

[Admin]

WD is moving to settle a class-action lawsuit for false advertising.

WD Moves to Settle SMR HDD False Advertising Class Action Lawsuit : Read more

 

[velocityg4]

Lawyers will get summer homes in the Hamptons. You get $4 to $7. Sounds fare to me.

/s

 

[digitalgriffin]

I was one that bought a couple of those drives for my UNRAID array just when the story broke.

I added the ZFS plug in and filled it with garbage and then forced the array to rebuild the parity disk. It was abysmally slow on 6GB drives. I would have taken over 5 days with a Ryzen 2400g CPU. Not exactly comforting when another failure could mean death.

Since I was within my 1 month window, I returned them to amazon as defective because WD support didn't offer me an upgrade option (which I would have paid for)

I since have gone Seagate Ironwolf and haven't looked back. I'm a little concerned about temps on parity checks (57C) (std operating is 55C max) But my drive cage may just need a good cleaning for fan flow. Or I may need to adjust the fan curve up. So far only post warning's I've seen have been about head realignment due to vibration which is pretty standard fare.

 

[DemonicSky]

Sadly I bought mine just before. I was concerned but didn't know how bad it would be. I think I replicated 2.5Tb and it took some 10h if not more. If I knew the full story I would have returned them, but don't have the option right now 🙁

 

[vern72]

I almost got burned by SMR but I bought a 8GB drive which were not SMR at the time.