Unimportant files get stored in one spot. Important files get at minimum one backup and a separate off-site backup.
Comment on “We just lost 3TB of data on a SanDisk Extreme SSD” - The Verge
HeartyBeast@kbin.social 1 year agoSomeone 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
Kalkaline@programming.dev 1 year ago
HeartyBeast@kbin.social 1 year ago
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”
CheezyWeezle@lemmy.world 1 year ago
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.
dartos@reddthat.com 1 year ago
They should’ve made a better headline
SaiPenguin@lemmy.world 1 year ago
They included a large number of words after the headline that expound on the topic.
quicksand@lemmy.world 1 year ago
This concept is revolutionary! What should we call this new form of information delivery?
dartos@reddthat.com 1 year ago
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.
ciko22i3@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
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.
Offlein@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Fuck nuance!