MANY people base their purchase decision on ‘consumer’s’ opinions, where in reality there is zero way of knowing whether or not they are fake.
The mainstream media jumps on this as well, using this as a huge promotional point, in their click bait advertising model.
One of the worst places an electronics ‘consumer’ could go for advice is to a mainstream media ‘news’ site, for example Rupert Murdoch’s ‘news’ empire from some tech flog using a pseudonym, trying to convince you that Apple’s newest features are worthy of your attention or most importantly your hard earned dollars, in these times of government created austerity.
Even a website’s so called reviews on a particular piece of electronics equipment would not be the best place for reference.
They could be false, they could be bots or even the company’s webmaster faking reviews on the orders of the CEO.
In this instance the under the spotlight is a SSD (Sold State Drive) from WD (Western Digital), in particular the SN350 model range.
From the reviews of a tech warehouse one would be of the belief that this is a great product to purchase.
Even from another tech warehouse that touts itself as “Australia’s Largest Online Tech Retailer” the technobable they give you sounds impressive:
Well, that’s all fine and Dandy, but you (the ‘consumer’) are missing some vital pieces of information about the product, that being its longevity which is typically given to you in the form of acronyms that being MTBF (Mean Time Between Failures, in hours) and TBW (Tera Bytes Written, in the unit explained).
WD offers 100TBW on its 1TB drive or approximately on sixth of the industry standard.
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