What, you don’t do RAID-6 and carry around 5 external USB drives to move your data between locations? It’s just so convenient. 🤣
Seriously, I don’t get the raid comments at all.
Comment on “We just lost 3TB of data on a SanDisk Extreme SSD” - The Verge
Offlein@lemmy.world 11 months ago
What the fuck are all these comments?
It’s an article about an unresolved and recurring problem with a popular drive that the ostensibly reputable manufacturer is trying to hide.
But 90% of the comments are people jerking themselves off about how smart they are for using RAID, which is irrelevant to the point of the article… But never miss an opportunity to pleasure yourself in public I guess?
drdabbles@lemmy.world 11 months ago
stardreamer@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 months ago
Of course I don’t carry 5 external drives with me all the time, that would be ridiculous.
I carry the whole HBA.
BarrelAgedBoredom@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I didn’t believe you but yeeeeeesh. Lots of self righteous penises ITT. If people buy an expensive hard drive, it should work. Not everyone knows everything there is to know about data storage, have a little grace people
Steeve@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
Lol this place is half a circle jerk of people who think they’re certified geniuses for rejecting mainstream technology, tech hipsters. There was a thread about Google’s “safe browsing” thing and most of the comments were just "iMaGiNe UsInG gOoGle!!*
abhibeckert@lemmy.world 11 months ago
irrelevant to the point of the article
What are you talking about? Of course it’s relevant.
Hard drives die. I’ve personally had three drives fail in the last 12 months - two HDDs and one SSD. And both of those were internal hard drives either in a data center or at least on a desk in a properly climate controlled office.
Your solution doesn’t have to be RAID, but it has to be something better than “I’ll just keep this file on a single drive”.
relative_iterator@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Stop focusing on the title. The lost data isn’t the point. The defect is the point.
PupBiru@kbin.social 11 months ago
there are 2 discussions happening: 1 about the product the article is talking about, and another about the tangentially related topic of disk failure in general
i see no problem here… or are we only allowed to discuss the specific points the article mentions now and absolutely under no circumstances are we allowed to have discussions about anything else…?
abhibeckert@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Second paragraph of the article: “My colleague Vjeran just lost 3TB of video”.
It’s not just the title, the entire article is about data loss. To be honest what really bothers me about the article is the whole thing points fingers at WD for making a mistake, while conveniently ignoring that fact that a Verge employee also made a mistake and I’d argue a worse one by failing to backup their data.
If the article was about “it’s annoying to have to wait for a replacement drive to be sent” then I’d be right on board. But that’s not what the article is about.
phillaholic@lemm.ee 11 months ago
No… the company trying to hide the fact that their product is defective is the point here. Lost data or not, people are paying for a product that’s defective. End of story.
rambos@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Why is your comment with so many upvotes but I still had to scroll down to find it. Everything above is kinda morbid. Im glad I scrolled enough, was worried a bit 🤣
hark@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Showing off my superior intellect is always relevant!
Mdotaut801@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Thank you for saying this
hypelightfly@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Did you read the article? Because as far as I can see it fails to actually say shit about the problem. From just this article I can see why people are blaming the author for not having redundancy.
The Arstechnica articles however do actually say what’s going on, so yeah this appears to be a real issue with these drives disconnecting.
Offlein@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Yes.
saddlebag@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Lemmy definitely showing the same symptoms as Reddit as it grows. Too many people trying to show off how technically smart they are and just come off as obnoxious dweebs
atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
I don’t know why people think that this behavior would ever be restricted to Reddit, Twitter, Facebook, etc.?
There’s one common element in all these systems…
Blum0108@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Just remove the humans and the problem disappears
phillaholic@lemm.ee 11 months ago
I’ve seen enough AI freak outs to know that’s not true.
Steeve@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
My new preferred social media is just me talking to ChatGPT
milkjug@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Joke’s on you, it’s just me on the other end you’re talking to.
klyde@lemmy.world 11 months ago
It’s becoming more and more noticeable and it’s making me sad.
ffolkes@fanexus.com 11 months ago
The thing is, there’s nothing wrong with sharing knowledge or pointing out best practices. What sucks is people replying JUST to point out the flaws and then gloat, without even fully comprehending what happened in the article. But this behavior has been around way longer than reddit.
NotYourSocialWorker@feddit.nu 11 months ago
I feel it’s the same kind of people who complain regarding the same questions popping up at a forum often. I don’t get why they can’t just ignore them? Sure you could maybe find the answer by googling but sometimes you want to interact with others. Plus you might learn things you didn’t know you should also have asked.
My feeling is that Stackexchange is the place that has taken this the furthest with the result that new people can neither ask any questions nor get any points to get more rights on the site.
Yewb@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Yes, More opinions always lead to better decisions
atticus88th@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Lemmy guess… this is your 2nd go with a social media platform?
Lemmy sit you down on my knee son and let grandpa here explain how social media worked in his old times of facebook just like I sat on my grandpappys knee and he explained to me the days of AIM.
/s
cheese_greater@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Lemmy stop you right there—
pinkdrunkenelephants@lemm.ee 11 months ago
And what’s most important is you putting smart people down to make yourself feel superior to them
Snowpix@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
You’ve been putting people down everywhere, quite hypocritical of you
CmdrShepard@lemmy.one 11 months ago
How else are they supposed to show off how much smarter they are than those grubby redditors?
saddlebag@lemmy.world 11 months ago
This is one the best uses of irony (probably unintentional or trolling) I’ve ever seen. Thanks
pinkdrunkenelephants@lemm.ee 11 months ago
They sure are, bro. They sure are