Red Alert: WD Sued for Selling 'Inferior' SMR Hard Drives to NAS Customers

Multiple hard drive manufacturers were caught shipping SMR drives to consumers, but only Western Digital put them in its NAS product line. That decision has won the company a class action lawsuit.
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