Anyone else have a similar experience with one of these drives?

  • Deniablesummer@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    “I put 3TB of irreplaceable data on a single drive, and want to blame anyone but myself for my data loss”

    Go away with this garbage.

    I personally have a NAS with 12TB striped over 3 drives, I sure wouldn’t blame WD if one drive failed and I lost everything.

    E: this whole comment section is why tech illiterate people shouldn’t really comment on hardware failures like this. The only fact that is know is that the verge faced 2 drive failures and lost 3TB of data due to a lack of safe data storage practices. If they were tech literate they wouldn’t have lost any data.

    The verge did not confirm the mode of failure, and therefore the second failure could’ve been completely unrelated to the firmware issue. Nobody knows anything, other than the verge needs to educate themselves on how to properly store irreplaceable data.

    • Zak@lemmy.world
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      The claim here seems to be that the product has an unusual failure rate, the manufacturer has acknowledged the original problem and released a fix, and it does not appear to be fixed. I don’t read it as a sob story about some reporter’s lost data.

    • InfiniteStruggle@sh.itjust.works
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      Ooh ooooh look at me everybody I’m so much smarter than this IDIOT that expected the devices he PAID FOR to work as advertised and the company to be honest and straightforward with firmware issues and updates

      I run this better system than NORMIES and even if it fails (because I’m an idiot) I DONT CARE ABOUT THE DATA on them because iT DiDn’T mATteR tO Me iN tHe fIrSt PlAcE.

      PS For people wondering about the second paragraph, check this guy’s other comments in this thread.

    • electromage@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      These drives have a very different use case than a rack mount NAS. They’re portable ruggedized devices for field use, like dumping content from your camera so you can keep shooting. Two would be better but it sounds like a known flaw that is causing random, frequent losses.

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      1 year ago

      Let’s see you bring your raid NAS on an out of country video shoot.

      Edit: Misread the comment. My reply isn’t addressing the actual point he made.

    • Zima@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      I hope you are using a UPS or some form of offline storage if you really can’t afford to loose your data.