So one wouldn't want to have an NAS with WD products (although the bare drives are fine). Is Synology the only good option now? Seems like a good time and place to ask if anyone can link to a good tutorial on a good NAS setup.
WD My Book users wake up to find their data deleted
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You should trust anything connected to the internet. Demand a physical write-enable switch from your backup drive vendor.
A physical write enable switch? My computer is doing automatic hourly backups, how is that going to work?
It works on your backup drive so when you try to restore from the backup, the ransomware on your system can't encrypt it.
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This has never happened before and could seriously ruin the brand. [EDIT: widespread, very public data loss with a remote cause, as a result of a firmware vulnerability in a product whose job is to store data]
What I am seeing is future deep discounts on WD Drives.
Maybe. But I'm not sure if there are any takers.
My data is much more important than a 50$ rebate on a storage device.
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He only reliable backup mechanism is starting a successful cult whose main tenet is that your data is valuable communication from God, so that they continually duplicate it. Anything else will go bust long, long before the heat death of the universe.
" Anything else will go bust long, long before the heat death of the universe. " As opposed to what? I think you've got too much faith in your method.
Well, you could always alter the laws of physics so that a zero entropy state corresponds to the data you wish to store.
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#245How is this even possible. Shouldn’t these devices be behind a NAT? How did the hacker even reach these devices.
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That just effectively means a subscription. So your hard drive will be $100 + $10 a month.
If I'm going to pay a subscription fee, why am I even bothering with an on-premise solution really.
I find it funny that we simultaneously work in places that understand that software requires constant maintenance and charge customers a recurring fee for it while being gobsmacked that we have to pay indefinitely for the same.
You go on-prem for the same reason you work does. Because the software licensing plus the amortized cost of hardware is less than the subscription.
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> Why should anyone ever again trust your company to keep their data safe? Because if you need a hard drive, your options are pretty much Western Digital, Seagate, and Toshiba, and they've all had their own problems.
Seagate mitigated their most famous problems. They were a good bargain buy for a while after that as they tried to rebuild their brand. Issue is now they're too proud of themselves, you're better off buying something else. They might still be the cheapest per GB for certain sizes, just look at the backblaze stats.
Seagate Exos drives are solid. All of HDD drives intended for consumers are 1 year warranty bottom of the barrel shit
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Well, the GP said "why should anyone ever again trust [Western Digital] to keep their data safe?" Using a Western Digital hard drive, internet connected or not, very much means trusting a WD product with your data. But I might be reading too literally. And personally, I do intend to continue purchasing Western Digital hard drives , just nothing internet connected, because I agree they're different products with diffe…
From the quote the user you replied to posted it looks as though this is a product that was discontinued six years ago.
I suspect they still produce NAS devices though. I wouldn’t buy one
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> Why should anyone ever again trust your company to keep their data safe? Because if you need a hard drive, your options are pretty much Western Digital, Seagate, and Toshiba, and they've all had their own problems.
And Samsung. Using 500GB SSD for many years as an external backup.
Samsung only makes SSD's though, right? It's fine if you don't have that much data, but past a certain size you're paying a lot extra.
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#250Read this, then checked my old My Book Live. Sure enough... everything's gone. I just used it for continuous laptop backups over my LAN, so unless one of them crashes tonight, I should be good. But, this will certainly give me pause when considering WD products, and this type of product in particular. This is very bad, WD! Are your other products also vulnerable in this way? Why should anyone ever again trust your co…
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