Hard drive manufacturer Western Digital has confirmed that it is looking into potential problems with its older hard drives identified by data recovery scientists. The drives in question, a collection of 2TB to 6TB data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.tomshardware.com/tag/western-digital” data-auto-tag-linker=”true” data-before-rewrite-localise=”https://www.tomshardware.com/tag/western-digital”>WD Blue and Red models released around 2020, are SMR drives, a classification that already brought WD a class-action lawsuit in 2021.
Trust and reliability are the foundation of everything we do at Western Digital,” reads WD’s official response to German outlet data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.heise.de/en/news/WD-to-investigate-problems-with-older-SMR-hard-drives-10872057.html” target=”_blank” data-url=”https://www.heise.de/en/news/WD-to-investigate-problems-with-older-SMR-hard-drives-10872057.html” referrerpolicy=”no-referrer-when-downgrade” data-hl-processed=”none”>Heise Online. “We take the…
