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

Char Jackson wrote:

> Rabid Roach AKA "Slimer" wrote:
>>
>> Char Jackson wrote:
>>>
>>> Rabid Roach, AKA "Slimer" wrote:
>>>>
>>>> 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.

Idiot.  No one thinks that it is normal.  You missed the point
entirely.

>I think your position is extreme but I won't belabor the point.

Oh, "Slimer" is extreme, all right.  He's a Nazi or, at least, a Nazi
sympathizer.

-- 
"All I have to say to you is that it is a shame what the Allies did to
the innocent German people during the Second World War and if I had
been there during that time and known the facts as I do today, I would
have gladly fought alongside your countrymen for the cause of National
Socialism."  -  "Slimer"