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WD refused to answer our questions about its self- wiping SanDisk SSDs (www.theverge.com)

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Eleven days ago, we sent these questions to Western Digital’s head of PR and published them publicly on The Verge:

Months after our inquiries, Western Digital continues to sell these drives due to deep discounts, fake Amazon reviews, and issues with Google Search that rank favorable results far higher than warnings about potential failures.

We have now received a response from Western Digital head of PR Robin Schultz, but nothing about the company’s stance has changed.

As The Register reports, California resident Nathan Krum has filed a prospective class action lawsuit, citing breach of contract, fraudulent and unfair business practices, and many other claims.

Western Digital was already forced into a class action settlement over a previous questionable practice: in 2020, the company brazenly tried to sneak SMR drives into its “WD Red” lineup marketed for network-attached storage devices.

The company’s tricks didn’t end there: Western Digital’s NAS disks have started triggering warnings even if there’s nothing wrong with a drive, seemingly to scare people into buying new ones simply after three years have gone by.

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