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“We just lost 3TB of data on a SanDisk Extreme SSD” - The Verge (www.theverge.com)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Anyone else have a similar experience with one of these drives?

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[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I did read it, and that was the point that jumped out at me as worth commenting on.

The rest of the WD RMA fuckery wasn't really that unexpected, although definitely disappointing. If the article had focused on that I wouldn't even have commented.

I have since found out that these drives are used as the storage for some video cameras, which is definitely a use case where backups are not feasible, and maybe that is what happened to the Verge.

But in all other uses, we should strive to have backups for our data, and given most people don't backup correctly (myself included) it's always worth having a reminder of the that.. And to be clear, I'm not saying you need to have RAID99 zfs, even a second disk with a manual copy could save a ton of heartache and stress.