“Clearly predatory”: Western Digital sparks panic, anger for age-shaming HDDs
“Clearly predatory”: Western Digital sparks panic, anger for age-shaming HDDs
Pretty scummy overall, but average user probably doesn’t understand the drives could fail at any moment and that the older the drives age the more likely it will fail.
Regardless though, it would better serve to warn users to have a backup of their data than just a blanket age-shaming.