How are these still on sale?
    • that_one_guy@beehaw.org
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      1 year ago

      It’s basically just a really elaborate angry comment on a SanDisk SSD. Sucks that you lots your data, but it’s a single failure that could happen to basically any drive. Back up what you care about. Absolute waste of time ‘article.’

  • Vortieum@sopuli.xyz
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    1 year ago

    NOTHING I have that is irreplaceable is on less than 2 drives nor are they ever connected at the same time. You’re just asking to lose files if you only save them on one drive.

  • TempleSquare@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    That’s good to know. I almost thought of buying a couple (I always back up with pairs) to replace a couple of aging spinning disk portables.

    Guess I will wait.

  • Moonrise2473@feddit.it
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    1 year ago

    WD writing fake reviews?

    There’s no way an actual human wrote such an extensive, detailed but overall dry of content as a review, unless they got it for free in exchange of an enthusiastic review

  • gravity@infosec.pubEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I get a lot of folks are correctly pointing out the need to back up data but isn’t that a little bit of victim blaming? This isn’t a situation where the guy had a 10 year old drive with all his photos and videos sitting around unbacked up. He had a new drive and it failed. Can we agree that brand new drives aren’t supposed to fail?

    • flatbield@beehaw.orgEnglish
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      1 year ago

      They should at least try to recover the data. Maybe a data recovery program like spinrite would just do it. https://www.grc.com/sr/spinrite.htm .

      Not running raid, not backing up, and not even trying the simplest recovery approaches is just sloppy and lazy. Do at least one of the three.

      Like someone else said. Expect the biggest risk of failure when you buy it. Then like maybe 5 years out rising failure rates. Refreshing the disk pattern as it gets older can help too.

    • jarfil@beehaw.orgEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Can we agree that brand new drives aren’t supposed to fail?

      No.

      The typical failure rates, for pretty much all electronics, even mechanic stuff, form a “bathtub graph”: relatively many early failures, very few failures for a long time, with a final increasing number of failures tending to a 100%.

      That’s what you’re supposed to have a “burn in” period for everything, before you can trust it within some probably (still make backups), and beware of it reaching en of life (make sure the backups actually work).

      • u_tamtam@programming.dev
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        1 year ago

        That’s absolutely true in the physical sense, but in the “commercial”/practical sense, most respectable companies’ QA process would shave off a large part of that first bathtub slope through testing and good quality practices. Not everything off of the assembly line is meant to make it into a boxed up product.