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[newsposter]

http://www.boingboing.net/2007/12/06/western-digital-netw.html

[jgreen]

news, are you sure this isn't just an urban legend?  it kind of sounds "pythons-in-the-sewers".

[Alex B]

That page has a link to this page.

[jgreen]

This just seems too silly to be true.  How many hard drives does the RIAA purchase, out of WD's entire customer base?  Dozens?  And they're going to cripple that whole product line in order to please one customer?

And I was just about to buy one of the 320 GB notebook USB drives--are those affected? 

[benn600]

I'm betting that the drive has not a clue of its data when it's in a RAID set.  At first I thought the article was about high failure rate.  I have/know of 19 500GB drives that have been running for a year or more without a single failure.

Yea, they're network drives so they can examine the data.  Media is what drives hard drive purchases--DUH.

[johnnyboy]

This is actually not quite the case
Their sharing software when used blocks these file types - the drives themselves are fine.

Just get the drive and use other, better software.

Problem solved

[benn600]

I'm not a big fan of standalone NAS devices, either, because it seems like you could be screwed in so many different ways.  With a desktop, you have standard drives and a standard PC with the potential for tons of 3rd party recovery tools.