[paypalcust83]

I recently bought 4x WD HGST WUH721414ALE6L4 512e 14TB. The 4Kn's were the same price but on lengthy backorder/dropship from WD, so that wasn't going to work. Also, I absolutely refuse to buy the WD Gold (WD141KRYZ) that is effectively the same product but at a much higher price ($480 vs. $346). Marketing people can take a long walk from a short pier.

[kohtatsu]

I'm (unfortunately) boycotting WD and their subsidiaries; https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22935563

[greggyb]

Who are you buying from? Seagate also had undisclosed SMR, and I believe Toshiba did as well.

[fomine3]

Seagate and Toshiba are sane compared to WD because they never adopt SMR on NAS drives.

[convery]

I was actually looking at WD Gold for the next workstation. Do you have any good resource / introduction-page about their HDDs price/performance/misc (e.g. which drives are just rebranded). Very hard to compare specs for us uninitialized =)