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