And frankly, your data should never be in question. Short of a drive failure where the whole drive dies, which would require data recovery services, your data should be safely stored. IMO that’s the premise of data storage; and bluntly, it’s the only job it has… To store, keep, and retrieve data when asked.
If it cannot do that, or has any nontrivial risk of being unable to do that, then it’s not worth the plastics that make up the case. Unless you’re using the drive as a temp/scrub/whatever disk, it’s unusable in my opinion.
jsh@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Every drive in my computer: NVME, SSD, and HDD is a WD drive. 🫣
nurple@lemmy.world 10 months ago
So far these issues only apply to these specific SSDs … fingers crossed it stays that way, because like you I’ve got a number of WD HDDs in my life.
AbidanYre@lemmy.world 10 months ago
WD got in trouble not too long ago for deceptively marketing shingled drives as conventional. Back to back issues like this is going to leave a lasting impression on the kinds of people who buy drives.
nurple@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I agree, I don’t buy WD drives any more. But I don’t want to replace the ones I already have unless it’s necessary.
Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world 10 months ago
“so far” is the operative word.
xantoxis@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I think the key thing here is that older drives you already own are probably ok. At least if they’re a year old or so.