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

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    1 year ago

    It’s definitely newsworthy, and the ars article is at least a bit more balanced. My main issue is the “I trusted my data to a single USB device, and was then furious when it died” clickbait. These journalists should know better than to store critical data in a single place.

    If you can’t RMA the drives then that is a bigger problem, but that comes down to the consumer protection laws you have in your country.

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      These journalists should know better than to store critical data in a single place.

      This again. Kindly point out to me where in the article they say they do not have another copy of that data. This is not an article about backup strategies, it is about repeated hardware failure and a known issue that is not being addressed by its manufacturer while selling affected drives at discount price.

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        1 year ago

        My colleague Vjeran just lost 3TB of video we’d shot for The Verge because the drive is no longer readable.

        If they have a backup they wouldn’t have lost anything. Data is only lost when you no long have access to the last copy.

        The article should have just kept to the repeated hardware failure, and not waffled on about the lost data.