Re: Security News This Week: Hackers Are Erasing Western Digital Hard Drives Remotely
Rabid Roach <[email protected]> Sun, 27 Jun 2021 19:04:36 -0400
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On 2021-06-27 3:53 p.m., Char Jackson wrote: > 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. Eight months is not normal. Even the crappy Seagate I had in there before it lasted a good three years and they're like the worst after ADATA. -- Rabid Roach Immune to all of your __ist labels.