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Western Digital BLACK SN850X NVMe M.2 2280 4TB


Larry Shelby

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8 minutes ago, cclarry said:

The Red and Blue are the lower line...the Black has a 5 year warranty

I wonder if I mistaken BLUE for BLACK.. either way, they have been found in my articles across the internet to cripple drives to only last 3 years... I thought I was pretty sure it was RED and BLACK, but maybe it was RED and BLUE... they was talking about the Enterprise versions.

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If you are speaking about this article (or many like it), it's related to NAS drives in a Synology NAS Case, and it's a warning. There still seems to be discussion about if it is WD or Synology issue, but in any case, not an ideal situation. The drive is not crippled, just a warning (not defending WD,  just clarifying)

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/06/clearly-predatory-western-digital-sparks-panic-anger-for-age-shaming-hdds/

 

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41 minutes ago, El Diablo said:

I wouldn't buy Western Digital RED or BLACK series as they have been known to cripple the drives to only last 3 years in the chips on the drives!

Not sure how they do that.   I know both them an Seagate have been sued before.  I buy WD almost exclusively since their RMA is hassle free.

Their HDDs are great. I still have Blue and Black drives that I now use with a drive dock.  

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3 hours ago, kitekrazy said:

Not sure how they do that.   I know both them an Seagate have been sued before.  I buy WD almost exclusively since their RMA is hassle free.

Their HDDs are great. I still have Blue and Black drives that I now use with a drive dock.  

Great price. If this were a true  single-sided model (with no additional bump on the second side) , and you guys weren’t scaring me with this other stuff, I’d grab it in a minute for my Lenovo laptop. Unfortunately there are reports out there that you really have to jam it in to single sided slots.

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