After 7-Year Hiatus, Western Digital Unveils 6TB 2.5-Inch Hard Drives
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After all this time, the company has added an additional terabyte to its external drives.
  • gradyp@awful.systemsEnglish
    141·
    6 months ago

    Bought some of the old versions for backup drives. That was a mistake.

      • KaRunChiy@kbin.run
        10·
        6 months ago

        Very high failure rate. even sony 2.5’s have a similar rate of death. For some reason this form factor is just terrible for longevity

        • fatalError@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
          2·
          6 months ago

          My bet is on density. You cram so much in such a tiny space, so any tiny imperfection or fault will corrupt the data or render the drive unusable.

          • gradyp@awful.systemsEnglish
            2·
            6 months ago

            At the time it was fine. I had an array of 4tb drives that I was backing up with a series of 5gb drives. They were just so unreliable; all but one failed while the array they backed up is still spinning strong.

        • gradyp@awful.systemsEnglish
          2·
          6 months ago

          Bingo. Sorry, had typed a reply about my failure rate and difficulties getting an RMA but forgot to submit.

      • gradyp@awful.systemsEnglish
        2·
        6 months ago

        Not exactly reliable and less than easy rma process.

        Sorry, had typed this and forgotten to hit submit :(