Why Do Techtubers Recommend WD hard drives?

[MichaelLindman]

If anyone is reading this and wants to buy this drive, please read this first and don’t buy it:

I bought a "New" 2TB HGST Drive on Amazon

A couple of days ago I was reading this thread and amongst the discussion I found a new HGST 2TB hard drive for a pretty decent price so I decided to buy it as my 1TB drive was almost full. However, a little while after I bought it I read some of the reviews and a few were complaining about the drives not being new and had 16000 - 25000+ hours…