WD My Book users wake up to find their data deleted

Re:WD My Book users wake up to find their data deleted by myself248 on Friday June 25, 2021 @09:36AM (#27630582)

Hard drives are a mediocre example, but I have exactly such an enclosure sitting around that I use as cold-storage because I know better than to connect it to a network. If I want to get data off it, I set up an isolated segment in RFC3927 space.

As a result, I've bought a new NAS-type device which does have supported software and which I can put on a live network with only minimal worry. (I still take backups of course, but not as thoroughly as I should.)

That's a direct waste impact of the device being out of support. I like the form factor. I like the capacity. I wish I could just run Openwrt or something on it. (It's a Marvell SOC inside, so that's the likely target if I had porting skills.)

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Re:WD My Book users wake up to find their data deleted by edgeform on Friday June 25, 2021 @03:31PM (#27635236)

> If I want to get data off it, I set up an isolated segment in RFC3927 space.

Do you really not see how completely unrealistic this is for the average consumer, and honestly the majority of HN readers?

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Re:WD My Book users wake up to find their data deleted by pbhjpbhj on Saturday June 26, 2021 @02:25PM (#27644483)

I get the impression they're only describing how they handle it (for the crowd here); I don't see any suggestion the OP thinks this is a reasonable expectation of ordinary consumers.

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