Recent content by Dorian_WD

@neil_g I am really sorry to hear about the issues you have experienced. I hope they were under warranty and you were able to get a replacement. As far as it concerns the bridge board - it is integrated to keep the form factor of the drive small and it helps prevent issues that could happen...

@Pookeyhead Yes I am sure :) I can't really comment on another company, even if it is a subsidiary.

@Pookeyhead I absolutely agree with you - what I meant is that if a NAS is used as a primary storage device, even if it is a 2-bay model set up in a RAID 1, where the hard drives are mirrored, this is not a backup solution. Otherwise, as you said, the NAS might be used to backup your info on it...

Hey Neil, yes I am an official WD representative. I have just updated my signature to make this more visible :) Cheers, Dorian_WD

Hey there, I am sorry to hear about your issue, but as LC2 said, hard drives tend to fail and what you can do to protect your data is to make a backup. Since you are looking for a backup solution, my suggestion would be to simply get an external drive on which you put all the valuable...