- cross-posted to:
- technology@beehaw.org
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- cross-posted to:
- technology@beehaw.org
- technews@radiation.party
Anyone else have a similar experience with one of these drives?
Anyone else have a similar experience with one of these drives?
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Someone didn’t read the story. This is about a known firmware fault that the company is doing its best not to keep quiet. Don’t help them in that work
They should’ve made a better headline
They included a large number of words after the headline that expound on the topic.
This concept is revolutionary! What should we call this new form of information delivery?
Yeah but the headline should let me know what the story is and make me interested. Not make me think the author is complaining that their SSD died.
I don’t care about that. I don’t want to read an article about that.
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Fuck nuance!
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There is absolutely nothing to say that the author didn’t have it backed up. He still lost 3TB of files from a new drive which was a replacement sent by the company, with a known fault supposedly fixed.
“Herp derp he should have backed up” is not the takeaway here”
Still, if SSDs fail repeatedly, something’s not right. That’s the point of the article
So because backups exist, everyone should be okay with buying bad hardware?
I know you’re not actually saying that, but countering “this is a known firmware fault” with a reminder that backups should be done sure makes it look like you’re saying that. There’s still value in making sure consumers’ money goes to products that last.
i think it’s the “we just lost 3TB of data” part… either the headline is hyperbole, in which case screw the clickbaint… or they lost 3TB of data which is always a good time to remind people that cheap NAND flash is cheap NAND flash
Single point of failure… surprised pikachu?
The use case for these drives is always a single point of failure. It’s camera footage out in the field. You have to get it home before you have proper storage.
Do you have a dashcam for your vehicle? Do you have backups before you get the footage home?