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“We just lost 3TB of data on a SanDisk Extreme SSD” - The Verge
(www.theverge.com)
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
"I put 3TB of irreplaceable data on a single drive, and want to blame anyone but myself for my data loss"
Go away with this garbage.
I personally have a NAS with 12TB striped over 3 drives, I sure wouldn't blame WD if one drive failed and I lost everything.
E: this whole comment section is why tech illiterate people shouldn't really comment on hardware failures like this. The only fact that is know is that the verge faced 2 drive failures and lost 3TB of data due to a lack of safe data storage practices. If they were tech literate they wouldn't have lost any data.
The verge did not confirm the mode of failure, and therefore the second failure could've been completely unrelated to the firmware issue. Nobody knows anything, other than the verge needs to educate themselves on how to properly store irreplaceable data.
~~Let's see you bring your raid NAS on an out of country video shoot.~~
Edit: Misread the comment. My reply isn't addressing the actual point he made.
God you guys are all dense.
When did I say a NAS was the correct solution here? I'm just pointing out that I'm not absolved from poor data storage practices. But that I'm only doing it becauss I don't care about the data.
The verge should know better, and including anything about their lost data in this shows they have no journalistic integrity. Reports the news, with proof that WD didn't fix the issue. Don't report that you suck at training your employees.
I get your point now. It really does sound like you were suggesting that they should've used a NAS instead at first read. Maybe a clearer paragraph structure would've helped you get your point across easier.