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Malenko:
I was just being a dick earlier, it does suck when that happens and Ive had it happen a few times. I still dont back up as much as I should, but I find it safer to back up to older 5400 10GB  IDE drives then the million RPM 2Gb cache Sata II 2TB drives *shrugs*

Xiaou2:
Sorry for your loss.

 Personally, I would have just RMAd the thing normally.  I think it
would be quite rare that WD employees would have the time to try
to rip apart & rebuild a drive to then try to take info off of it,
without being caught... especially when there is no guarantee that there
will be anything worthwhile to get off the drive in the first place.

 Telling someone to do a "secure rma'  would seem much more
dangerous Imop... as you are telling them there Are things of worth
on that drive... thus may be worth someones dark efforts to do the deeds.

 I wouldnt worry too much though.  Id bet something like that is
extremely rare.
 

ark_ader:

--- Quote from: Xiaou2 on March 03, 2010, 12:04:55 pm ---Sorry for your loss.

 Personally, I would have just RMAd the thing normally.  I think it
would be quite rare that WD employees would have the time to try
to rip apart & rebuild a drive to then try to take info off of it,
without being caught... especially when there is no guarantee that there
will be anything worthwhile to get off the drive in the first place.

 Telling someone to do a "secure rma'  would seem much more
dangerous Imop... as you are telling them there Are things of worth
on that drive... thus may be worth someones dark efforts to do the deeds.

 I wouldnt worry too much though.  Id bet something like that is
extremely rare.
 

--- End quote ---

I disagree.

These hard drive companies make it all sound too easy to say it is safe to put this and that data on their drives.

If it goes tits up the drive manufacturers should put it right!

That said I ALWAYS have a striped raid in my development system and another pen drive that is used for incremental backups just in case.

Once bitten twice shy!

shateredsoul:
your momma!?  ;D

Ok ok.. totally inappropriate but I couldn't help it.  That sucks man, hope you can recover the financial info.

TOK:
I had a 4 month old 1tb Seagate crap out and I was able to blow it out with SeaDOS... Kind of a pain in the butt, since you have to make a boot DVD to run it, but it worked.

Drives are so cheap now that if I was worried about someone recovering personal info, I would have just smashed it and taken the loss. I've actually had great luck with WD. This was the first Seagate I bought in 10 years after reading about how abysmal their quality had become.

The refurb they sent back is just used as for downloads and junk I don't want crapping up my main drives. I don't trust it.

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