Timely. I was just about to do some brand comparison for my laptop drive upsizing. It has WD onboard, and I was thinking a like-for-like (but bigger) made sense. Maybe not.
Western Digital still selling defective Sandisk-brand SSDs that it refuses to answer questions about
It’s a shame WD has turned out to be a bad company. They were my go-to since I won’t buy Seagate. (Every Seagate I’ve ever had has failed.)
I hope WD doesn’t follow the path of Boeing and destroy a reputation for quality in pursuit of profits.
I am just going to copy/paste my reply from The Register’s version of this article:
Speaking with ~20 years in the business from a field repair tech, and later as the storage admin for a small / medium company with ~750 TB of data storage appliances: All storage media brands suck.
All {drives | USB sticks | memory cards | SSDs | NVMe | M.2 SSDs} will fail, and all companies have periods where they have a production run (or three) that just have problems. A LOT of WD drives failed after they re-built one of their manufacturing facilities. (WD currently owns SanDisk Fujitsu, and probably someone else; Seagate and Samsung still own themselves, Micron has Crucial and Toshiba, IIRC.)
The only answer to the data integrity issue is multiple copies, on multiple media types, from different brands. “One is none” and all that.
There’s no crime in mixing drives from different brands; as long as the capacity is ‘close enough’, the raid controller won’t really care. We have a couple different brands of enterprise storage at [RedactedCo] and the individual drives are a mix of three - four brands.
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Hitachi- WD also bought up Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (HGST) a few years back. that was the one I couldn’t remember. (HGST was IBM’s storage division, and has the (in)famous “deathstar” drives. (aka Deskstar))
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