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Re:WD My Book users wake up to find their data deleted by koolba on Thursday June 24, 2021 @08:53PM (#27625879)
> I'll say again: backup drives must have a physical write enable switch on them. To all the people who argue against this - just you wait till it happens to you!

Reminds me of the little sliders on memory cards. Though I think those were software driven. It didn’t actually lock it out from writing.

Are there any portable USB style disks that have a hardware enforced read only switch?

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