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
@mcc IIRC, WD have good hardware, but the firmwares can be dodgy. (There's a couple of specific versions that are known very bad).
Seagate have decent firmware, but the hardware has a tendency to go phut.
Not sure what the drawbacks of Hitachi are.
I tend to go for Hitachi or WD.
[Edit: This is for HDDs.]
@mcc You can get the firmware number out of the SMART info. I don't think there's a published list of known bad drives (for reasons of avoiding lawsuits), but I can ask someone I know on the btrfs IRC channel who keeps such a list for work purposes.
Model number and firmware version, if you have hands on the specific device.
mcc
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