Re:WD My Book users wake up to find their data deleted
by xvector on Friday June 25, 2021 @12:21AM
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I hope it ruins the brand. This sort of incompetence and gross negligence ought to cripple companies.
Re:WD My Book users wake up to find their data deleted
by CrendKing on Friday June 25, 2021 @01:06AM
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If WD is gone, are you going to buy drives from Seagate, seriously? I've had 3 hard drives from Seagate just fail by itself before, 0 from WD so far. HGST used to be good, but sold to WD. I have no experience with Toshiba, but they have less product diversity and higher price.
Re:WD My Book users wake up to find their data deleted
by isatty on Friday June 25, 2021 @02:25AM
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Since we’re being anecdotal here, I’ve > 5 seagate drives, one that’s more than 12 years old that hasn’t failed on me.
Re:WD My Book users wake up to find their data deleted
by nebula8804 on Friday June 25, 2021 @12:19AM
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What I am seeing is future deep discounts on WD Drives.
Re:WD My Book users wake up to find their data deleted
by CaptainZapp on Friday June 25, 2021 @12:33AM
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Maybe. But I'm not sure if there are any takers.
My data is much more important than a 50$ rebate on a storage device.
Re:WD My Book users wake up to find their data deleted
by SOMA_BOFH on Friday June 25, 2021 @12:54AM
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this will be forgotten in six months.
Re:WD My Book users wake up to find their data deleted
by throwawayboise on Friday June 25, 2021 @01:43AM
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Most people will never hear about it.
[EDIT: widespread, very public data loss with a remote cause, as a result of a firmware vulnerability in a product whose job is to store data]