WD Red NAS Hard Drives
Allegations: Falsely advertising drives as suitable for use in NAS devices
Hard Drives from Western Digital Corp.
November 2020: This case was transferred from a court in New York to one in California. (Case No. 20-cv-8102, N.D. Cal.)
June 2020: A class-action lawsuit was filed against Western Digital Corp. for allegedly failing to disclose in its marketing of certain hard drives that they use Shingle Magnetic Recording (SMR) technology resulting in slower performance and inferior stability compared to devices that use Conventional Magnetic Recording (CMR) technology. (Brown et al v. Western Digital Corp., Case No. 20-cv-4624, S.D.N.Y.)
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Allegations: Misleadingly advertising hard drives as reliable
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