The aforementioned IT professional works for a ‘Contractor’ that in turn works for ‘you know who’. The IT Professional shares a Family Amazon account of which I get all the 'Your Order Has Shipped!" spam.
When Seagates explode in the workplace (regularly) a flurry of WD purchase spam floods my inboxes and I know what’s happening…
I have to go with my own personal experiences and those of a Professional, responsible for literally thousands of drives in assorted fixed and portable computer systems… if he’s chucking Seagates in the bin and installing WDs - there has to be reason.