Comment on “We just lost 3TB of data on a SanDisk Extreme SSD” - The Verge
Kalkaline@programming.dev 1 year agoUnimportant 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
Kalkaline@programming.dev 1 year agoUnimportant files get stored in one spot. Important files get at minimum one backup and a separate off-site backup.
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.