WD My Book users wake up to find their data deleted

Re:WD My Book users wake up to find their data deleted by Spivak on Friday June 25, 2021 @12:35AM (#27627186)

I find it funny that we simultaneously work in places that understand that software requires constant maintenance and charge customers a recurring fee for it while being gobsmacked that we have to pay indefinitely for the same.

You go on-prem for the same reason you work does. Because the software licensing plus the amortized cost of hardware is less than the subscription.

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Re:WD My Book users wake up to find their data deleted by emodendroket on Friday June 25, 2021 @07:46AM (#27629531)

Been a while since I’ve worked somewhere that actually did on-prem data storage.

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Re:WD My Book users wake up to find their data deleted by Spivak on Friday June 25, 2021 @10:46AM (#27631421)

I'm surprised since data storage, transfer, and compute are the things that you can absolutely beat every cloud provider on in terms of price. It was why we keep our storage in our own DC.

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Re:WD My Book users wake up to find their data deleted by emodendroket on Friday June 25, 2021 @11:47AM (#27632251)

Gets harder when you take labor into account.

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