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I guess we are boycotting WD now or voting with our wallets saying how garbage a response this is. What’s a good alternative to WD reds?

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Sadly, I've bought a lot of WD over the years. Seagate seems to be a minefield, HGST is owned by WD, leaving Toshiba as the only remaining option. Looks like the N300 is their line of NAS-optimized drives:

https://www.toshiba-storage.com/products/toshiba-internal-ha...

https://pcpartpicker.com/products/internal-hard-drive/#m=111...

They also have surveillance video storage drives and enterprise drives that might do well in the same applications.

According to this, Toshiba has been doing the same thing...

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/sneaky-marketing-toshiba-s...

But Toshiba did it on their desktop drives, instead of on NAS drives which you buy specifically for their reliability

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