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

  • Tony Smehrik
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    -361 year ago

    Unimportant files get stored in one spot. Important files get at minimum one backup and a separate off-site backup.

    • HeartyBeast
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      651 year ago

      There is absolutely nothing to say that the author didn’t have it backed up. He still lost 3TB of files from a new drive which was a replacement sent by the company, with a known fault supposedly fixed.

      “Herp derp he should have backed up” is not the takeaway here”

      • CheezyWeezle
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        111 year ago

        It’s also entirely possible that he was literally in the process of backing it up. He could have loaded the data onto it, then gone to plug it to his computer to back it up when it suddenly failed. The article doesn’t go into enough detail to draw a conclusion on what he did or didn’t do, but the point is clearly that a drive this new and with few write cycles should not be completely failing.

    • harmonea
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      181 year ago

      So because backups exist, everyone should be okay with buying bad hardware?

      I know you’re not actually saying that, but countering “this is a known firmware fault” with a reminder that backups should be done sure makes it look like you’re saying that. There’s still value in making sure consumers’ money goes to products that last.

      • PupBiru
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        -21 year ago

        i think it’s the “we just lost 3TB of data” part… either the headline is hyperbole, in which case screw the clickbaint… or they lost 3TB of data which is always a good time to remind people that cheap NAND flash is cheap NAND flash