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lol? i'm surprised to see verge making this article. So let me get this straight: they lost data once due to storing all data in one drive with no other backups, so they got a replacement drive and made the exact same mistake? comical
The Verge is a hit or miss outfit for me. Sometimes they're fine, but then you remember when they tried to build a PC and you wonder if they really actually know what they're doing over there.
Apparently they gave that guy (who had never built a PC on camera before) like less than a week to put that video together. Should it have gone out? No, but it's not the guy in the video's fault. Source: https://youtu.be/QKzmYsySGFQ
Oh I'm not throwing shade at Stefan, but the entire organization. A product like that doesn't happen because of one journalist, it happens because upper management constantly undervalues the time and effort it takes to put it together.
A week is plenty of time to do it right. It's not like you're asking someone who doesn't know algebra to do a video teaching advanced calculus in a week.
Yeah i'm subscribed to the rss feed of some news websites like verge, and amidst my tech feed I get the most random/useless articles such as "how to signup to amazon prime" from time to time, sometimes it feels like they're just running out of ideas and need to keep pumping articles (like this one for example).
All the tech sites seem to run unlabeled advertising a lot of the time. I get lots of "save $2000 on this amazing Lenovo laptop" crap in my feeds. The Amazon Prime one sounds like it may be a paid ad too.
Feeder has a filter option that's come in handy for getting rid of junk articles like that.
It's basically just a really elaborate angry comment on a SanDisk SSD. Sucks that you lots your data, but it's a single failure that could happen to basically any drive. Back up what you care about. Absolute waste of time 'article.'
It's two failures in a row on a drive that had a known firmware issue that had supposedly been fixed. Given the other reports floating around about this model it seems there could actually be a problem. But to know for sure we'd need statistics which we don't have.
Precisely my point.