Anyone else have a similar experience with one of these drives?
Stop focusing on the title. The lost data isn’t the point. The defect is the point.
there are 2 discussions happening: 1 about the product the article is talking about, and another about the tangentially related topic of disk failure in general
i see no problem here… or are we only allowed to discuss the specific points the article mentions now and absolutely under no circumstances are we allowed to have discussions about anything else…?
Second paragraph of the article: “My colleague Vjeran just lost 3TB of video”.
It’s not just the title, the entire article is about data loss. To be honest what really bothers me about the article is the whole thing points fingers at WD for making a mistake, while conveniently ignoring that fact that a Verge employee also made a mistake and I’d argue a worse one by failing to backup their data.
If the article was about “it’s annoying to have to wait for a replacement drive to be sent” then I’d be right on board. But that’s not what the article is about.
No, wait. The guy losing his data is the starting point of the article. The topic is WD drives failing (2 times in 3 months). Had he backed up all the data, the point of the article still stands: there is a company who makes unreliable, expensive drives that fail. They are not acknowledging the problem and instead they are selling those drives at a discount
