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Western Digital Introduces 4 TB microSDUC, 8 TB SDUC, and 16 TB External SSDs (www.anandtech.com)
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[–] tyler@programming.dev 3 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Never touching another WD product with a ten foot pole.

[–] aPirate@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Why I have not heard of them being a risky company to buy from, or am I misinformed?

[–] Thatuserguy@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

Yeah same. I have plenty of WD Black HDDs and SSD's and never once had issues with any of them. Am I out of the loop?

[–] tyler@programming.dev 1 points 2 years ago

Their most recent products have shown very high failure rates and they refuse to acknowledge the problem.

[–] Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

For HDDs, they seem to have a better reputation than Seagate. That being said, I usually buy their Gold "enterprise class" HDD drives.

[–] Spider89@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

How so?

[–] Potatisen@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Yeah, was gonna say. Waiting for Samsung or SanDisk to do it. WD is quite the gamble.

[–] seaQueue@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

WD owns SanDisk and has for some time.

[–] Potatisen@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

I didn't know that.

Their products are not at the same quality tho, or at least don't seem to perform the same.

[–] tyler@programming.dev 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

They own sandisk and the sandisk fiasco is what I’m partly referring to. SanDisk is terrible.

[–] Potatisen@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Oh damn, totally missed all this going down. Been reading up on a bit now, such a shame. :/

[–] recursive_recursion@programming.dev 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

All of these are using BiCS8 QLC NAND,

alright I've read enough, no thanks I'll pass

[–] Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I have a feeling will be seeing QLC more and more in the consumer space.

I don't think consumers can even buy MLC SSDs anymore now that Samsung has switched its Pro SSD line to TLC.

[–] recursive_recursion@programming.dev 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

god damn I didn't realize that Samsung swapped

although tbf I've been buying more TeamGroups and Corsair M.2s when they go on sale as they typically have both TLC and DRAM cache

I don't think consumers can even buy MLC SSDs anymore now that Samsung has switched its Pro SSD line to TLC.

yeaa, I'd imagine you gotta pay for enterprise components from willing retailers and OEMs or on the second-hand market