Re: Security News This Week: Hackers Are Erasing Western Digital Hard Drives Remotely

Char Jackson <[email protected]> Sun, 27 Jun 2021 14:53:46 -0500
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On Sun, 27 Jun 2021 09:19:06 -0400, Rabid Roach <[email protected]> wrote:

>On 2021-06-27 4:23 a.m., Anonymous wrote:
>> https://www.wired.com/story/western-digital-hard-drives-erased-
>> amazon-wickr-security-news/
>
>Even though I still had a WD Passport external drive, I completely lost 
>faith in them as a company when the hard disk I purchased for the laptop 
>I owned from 2010 to 2015 died after 8 months without warning. I've 
>never seen a hard disk die that quickly, and it's not like I was lugging 
>the laptop around while sleeping or anything.

One bad drive and you lose faith in the entire company? Every storage
company has a less than 100% success rate.