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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.
People downvoting you are the same people who complain about clickbait. A good headline should give you a good idea about content of an article. I don't have time to read 50 articles a day.
Fuck nuance!
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”
It's also entirely possible that he was literally in the process of backing it up. He could have loaded the data onto it, then gone to plug it to his computer to back it up when it suddenly failed. The article doesn't go into enough detail to draw a conclusion on what he did or didn't do, but the point is clearly that a drive this new and with few write cycles should not be completely failing.
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