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		prepend on April 21, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: On WD Red NAS Drives I haven’t been buying WD for my home projects for a long time. But they now own HGST Ultra/Deskstar line and will likely make it suck.

generatorguy on April 21, 2020 [–]

Toshiba has the 3.5" HGST tech [0] so you can buy a toshiba drive if you are afraid WD will ruin the HGST technology they bought.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HGST

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