Western Digital

Raised as a usability problem by 6 people on Hacker News over 14 years (2010–2023), in 5 threads.

People raised many different problems with Western Digital, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.

Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.

The newest 6 complaints

Took an evening and days to get SMB/NFS and permissions working, not plug and play2023-04-08
Terms of service written in all caps to be hard to read2023-04-07
Defaults push users into the incorrect, dangerous behavior instead of the safe option2021-07-02
Took 20 minutes to open the case and damaged it2021-03-16
Compatibility list is hard to use, so the user cannot find ZFS support2020-06-15
Layout makes the page hard to read and photos hard to see2010-02-15