This is a pretty awful "I'm sorry you feel that way" response. Also, thanks to HN for highlighting this misleading setup in the first place (I wouldn't have heard about it otherwise).
I happen to have replaced a failed drive in my NAS box with one of these. I just checked the logs for the rebuild time and while my array has 8T, I'm only using 3.3T so it had to rebuild about 800 GB (this is Linux software raid on an older 4-bay synology diskstation). It took about 7 hours end to end, which while not amazing, is still ~30MB/second.
To be clear, this was on a Saturday night, and I don't use my NAS box for plex serving or anything (nor do I use ZFS, so I totally understand the rage of folks with random I/O rebuilds that have been screwed by this). Is everyone else assuming a rebuild of a very active NAS box?
To reiterate, I still disagree with WD on this, but I'm not holding my breath for a $5 after-laywers-fees class-action settlement check :).
I happen to have replaced a failed drive in my NAS box with one of these. I just checked the logs for the rebuild time and while my array has 8T, I'm only using 3.3T so it had to rebuild about 800 GB (this is Linux software raid on an older 4-bay synology diskstation). It took about 7 hours end to end, which while not amazing, is still ~30MB/second.
To be clear, this was on a Saturday night, and I don't use my NAS box for plex serving or anything (nor do I use ZFS, so I totally understand the rage of folks with random I/O rebuilds that have been screwed by this). Is everyone else assuming a rebuild of a very active NAS box?
To reiterate, I still disagree with WD on this, but I'm not holding my breath for a $5 after-laywers-fees class-action settlement check :).