Users of these older (2015) NAS devices from Western Digital may get heavy problems if they don't react immediately because the NAS may be wiped or scrambled remotely if connected to the internet:
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/ne...ces-are-being-remotely-wiped-clean-worldwide/

 

thanks for bringing this to our attention.
i wonder how widespread this is? or if its a storm in glass of water kinda of deal?

quesiton remain tho, is there a solution to this BS?

 

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I think so. The WD will bring a patch for this eventually. But wiped drives will not be recovered.
But this shows, that the policy of hard/software vendors is quite dangerous to declare their products "end of life" so early and not to deliver security updates periodically even for older gear. And frankly I use a lot of old (> 5 years) stuff.

 

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Is there a difference between external drives and NAS drives? I don't know much about this stuff.

 

What is a NAS Drive? (External Hard Drive VS. NAS Explained)

 

Thank you, what I mean is, do I have to worry about this if I have an external drive version of this, or is this specifically only for the NAS versions?

 

Short answer: NO

Long answer: NO. The drive itself doesn't have the described problems as it has no "intelligence" by his own.
The problem only occurs, if you are using the NAS system (a system combining more than one HDD or SSD drives to one or more logical drives for size, speed, redundancy or ease of use). These systems (basically built on top of an operating system like Linux) have got their own set of management and security options. If they are not properly administered or if security patches are not delivered/installed they can produce severe data risks. In the worst case all data may be lost.

 

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hey man, sorry it took me so long to reply, just wanted to say thank you for the explanation.

 

actually i think that was not such a "new" nfo. Since the first NAS Hour this "hack" can be happen. Also like overheating hackz, etc. i am not a friend of combining hdds/ssds to make one Drive.

Actually SCSI was in the old times an "ancient analog" version of this. Loosing 1 HDDS meant loosing most of your Data...
Hopefully this does not happen to one of you. I learned it the hard way, i learned to backup all my Projectfiles a lot

WD always had problems with there BIOS on f.e. the "green Desktop Edit" ... But never mind i like Seagate more, using a lot of the Barracuda 8tb which are really unbreakable and fast. You can sort your HDDS or SSDs like the OLD Amiga 3" DiscBoxes, which every old fart knows.

Trendy is to have a good Backup for your Backup. Sorting and storing your files for fast locating is a real DIGITAL ART.... Also like orga Samplebanks, and SamplePacks etc.