“Clearly predatory”: Western Digital sparks panic, anger for age-shaming HDDs
“Clearly predatory”: Western Digital sparks panic, anger for age-shaming HDDs
Drives automatically get a "warning" flag if powered on for 3 years.
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That might backfire on WD. I wonder if people will be posting pics of successive warnings like a trophy. Like sometime posting screenshots of router uptimes.
21 0 ReplyWhen I see long uptimes, my first and pretty much only thought is of unpatched vulnerabilities.
8 0 ReplyEh, depends on the purpose of the device and what it's running. Many Linux/Unix kernels don't need reboot to restart services after updates.
10 0 ReplyThey do have to reboot to apply kernel updates, and kernels have their share of vulnerabilities.
1 0 ReplyIt's entirely possible to update the kernel without rebooting.
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Lol, I kinda hope so. I wanna see some of the uptimes people have accumulated! I’ve seen as high as around 100k POH on an old Barracuda.
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