> If you are encountering performance that is not what you expected, please consider our products designed for intensive workloads.
It seems very strange to argue that customers should just know beforehand what they need, while also at the same time acknowledging the hiding (or at the very least, omission) of the information customers need in order to make that decision.
Yeah, that's terrible advice. They advertise these as high-end prosumer drives.
To the product manager at WD who is inevitably reading this: if your hardware doesn't live up to your own marketing, I'm not going to throw more money your way. I'm switching to your competition.
I've read that SSDs can't be used to replace HDDs for long-term archival use: if you leave them powered off for too long, the data degrades. I can store data long-term on a regular HDD and stick in a closet or safe-deposit box and then get it out after a few years, plug it in, and read it just fine.
It seems very strange to argue that customers should just know beforehand what they need, while also at the same time acknowledging the hiding (or at the very least, omission) of the information customers need in order to make that decision.