Re: Security News This Week: Hackers Are Erasing Western Digital Hard Drives Remotely
Char Jackson <[email protected]> Sun, 27 Jun 2021 18:50:12 -0500
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On Sun, 27 Jun 2021 19:04:36 -0400, Rabid Roach <[email protected]> wrote: >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. I think your position is extreme but I won't belabor the point.