After all this news of false advertisement and lower quality drives from WD, I'm glad I bought Seagate drives, even if only because Amazon had a big fat discount on Barracudas the day I was shopping for some spinning rust.
Western Digital is trying to redefine the word “RPM”
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Re: Western Digital is trying to redefine the word “RPM”
#12I think the TLDR is that Western Digital are selling faster drives marketed as being slower than they actually are, presumably due to lack of supply for the demand of the slower drives part of the market or something like that. You'd think nobody would mind until you remember some people want lower power and noise. Ideally these people would be buying based on those actual metrics, rather than the RPM as a proxy for…
> Ideally these people would be buying based on those actual metrics, rather than the RPM as a proxy for them, if that's what they really wanted, but I don’t know if that’s on the data sheets.
Power use and acoustics are listed in WD datasheets, but I guess they might not be well comparable to values from other manufacturers.
Re: Western Digital is trying to redefine the word “RPM”
#13The German-language forum that the article mentions has been doing some great detective work: https://www.hardwareluxx.de/community/threads/crystaldiskinf... The conclusion on page 4 of the above thread: > Non-Pro RED = 5400rpm according to data sheet > Pro Red = 7200rpm according to data sheet > Internal both 7200rpm and 120Hz. > Apparently all WD / HGST helium plates have real 7200rpm, no matter what it says. Simpl…
> What a world when you can't even trust the spec sheet. What's next, 10 watt class drives that pull 20 watts? 3-year class warranties?
Just like how internet speeds are advertised ("Up to 300 Mb/s").
Re: Western Digital is trying to redefine the word “RPM”
#14I think the TLDR is that Western Digital are selling faster drives marketed as being slower than they actually are, presumably due to lack of supply for the demand of the slower drives part of the market or something like that. You'd think nobody would mind until you remember some people want lower power and noise. Ideally these people would be buying based on those actual metrics, rather than the RPM as a proxy for…
> Ideally these people would be buying based on those actual metrics, rather than the RPM as a proxy for them, if that's what they really wanted, but I don’t know if that’s on the data sheets. Power use and acoustics are listed in WD datasheets, but I guess they might not be well comparable to values from other manufacturers.
> Power use and acoustics are listed in WD datasheets
Given the fact that they lied about RPM on their datasheets, why should anyone believe other pieces of information on their datasheets are correct?
Re: Western Digital is trying to redefine the word “RPM”
#15This sort of misrepresentation should be outright illegal.
Why does it feel like big corporations are just getting more blatantly evil these days?
Re: Western Digital is trying to redefine the word “RPM”
#16I think the TLDR is that Western Digital are selling faster drives marketed as being slower than they actually are, presumably due to lack of supply for the demand of the slower drives part of the market or something like that. You'd think nobody would mind until you remember some people want lower power and noise. Ideally these people would be buying based on those actual metrics, rather than the RPM as a proxy for…
> Ideally these people would be buying based on those actual metrics, rather than the RPM as a proxy for them, if that's what they really wanted, but I don’t know if that’s on the data sheets. Power use and acoustics are listed in WD datasheets, but I guess they might not be well comparable to values from other manufacturers.
Well, I'm looking for a 19dB-class hard drive. That class spans anything between 14dB and 60dB. That's the general noise class, you know.
Re: Western Digital is trying to redefine the word “RPM”
#17This sort of misrepresentation should be outright illegal. Why does it feel like big corporations are just getting more blatantly evil these days?
This is already what they did with "KB/MB/GB/TB." Evil, but not any more blatant.
Re: Western Digital is trying to redefine the word “RPM”
#18>That increase in noise and power is what got many users on the trail of Western Digital's fake 5,400rpm spindle speed in the first place
I'm amazed that there are people that would pick this up. I genuinely wouldn't notice a drive being a tiny bit louder/hotter
Re: Western Digital is trying to redefine the word “RPM”
#19>That increase in noise and power is what got many users on the trail of Western Digital's fake 5,400rpm spindle speed in the first place I'm amazed that there are people that would pick this up. I genuinely wouldn't notice a drive being a tiny bit louder/hotter
Earth does have a lot of people.
Re: Western Digital is trying to redefine the word “RPM”
#20>That increase in noise and power is what got many users on the trail of Western Digital's fake 5,400rpm spindle speed in the first place I'm amazed that there are people that would pick this up. I genuinely wouldn't notice a drive being a tiny bit louder/hotter
You might not notice a drive being a tiny bit louder/hotter, but you might notice if you've got an entire NAS rack full of 'em. Don't shout at your JBODs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDacjrSCeq4