Just out of curiosity, I opened a faulty WD HDD today and I'm wondering what the small carved table is for.
I suppose it's some kind of quality check at the factory, but couldn't find any source on how to read it, can someone enlighten me on that matter ?
I've utilized WD for the entirety of my business without issue and in the last year I've had multiple hard drive failures. I use them to backup my work files as an archive I can occasionally source back to and use docks to swap them out as needed.
I just assumed it was the dock causing the issue but I've gone through 3 brands of docks all with hard drive failures so I can't help but think it's the hard drives now. Has anyone had issues over the last 1-2 years with drives falling?
This has been occurring with Red, 6TB drives.
I own a BeeStation and the same thing happened to me as probably half of you: it turned into the place every scanned receipt and IMG_xxxx.pdf goes to die. The cloud tools that "fix" this want to upload everything to their servers to read it, which is the exact opposite of why I bought a private drive.
So I built Filora. It runs a small AI entirely on your own Mac (nothing is uploaded, it's built to refuse any non-local connection), reads what's actually inside your documents, and proposes clean names + a tidy folder structure. You see a before/after preview and approve it. The part I care most about: it never deletes anything, and every run is one-click undoable, verified byte-for-byte. I was not going to trust a tool with my own files unless it literally couldn't lose them.
It's macOS for now (Windows is in beta. I'd rather not have you fight a security prompt while testing). It needs a free local AI helper (Ollama) — one install, the model downloads inside the app with a progress bar, no terminal.
I'm not really trying to sell anything today. I want to know if this is actually useful to people who aren't me. If ~10 of you with a messy BeeStation/Synology folder would try it and tell me where it's wrong, I'll send you the build. And one blunt question I genuinely need answered: if this worked well for you, would you pay £39 once for it? Yes/no, brutal honesty appreciated — a "no" is more useful to me than a polite "maybe."
Happy to answer anything in the comments.