mccFeb 28

Are Western Digital drives trustworthy these days. If I want to buy a pretty big non-flash hard drive for "backup and throw in a drawer" purposes, is this a good choice

https://www.amazon.ca/Elements-Portable-External-Drive-WDBU6Y0050BBK-WESN/dp/B07X41PWTY

Amazon.ca

Show threadRatsnake Games 🔞Feb 28

@mcc with the addendum that sometimes people sell fakes on Amazon (more of a problem with flash media afaik), yeah, I'd trust them

(this is a general problem with storage on Amazon, not with WD in particular)

Show threadROTOPE~1 ⭐️Feb 28
@ratsnakegames @mcc I suppose the "fake" here would be "a drive that was retired from a datacenter, had its power on hours reset, and has a totally non-suspicious ten billion head un/loading events on it".
Show threadRatsnake Games 🔞Feb 28
@rotopenguin @mcc in the flash/SSD space, the "fake" is usually "a 128MB flash drive with a controller that lies and claims to be 2TB large, then writes your data into nowhere, and also WD definitely didn't make it"
Show threadRatsnake Games 🔞
@rotopenguin @mcc anyway, you can avoid these if you pay attention (don't buy suspicious looking shit and look at the packaging carefully), and Amazon will generally refund them
Feb 28 at 6:49pmWeb