Hard drive manufacturer Western Digital has confirmed that it is looking into potential problems with its older hard drives identified by data recovery scientists. The drives in question, a collection of 2TB to 6TB WD Blue and Red models released around 2020, are SMR drives, a classification that already brought WD a class-action lawsuit in 2021.
“Trust and reliability are the foundation of everything we do at Western Digital,” reads WD’s official response to German outlet Heise Online. “We take the…