Disposable 1 -Tbyte NAS drives: How'd that happen?

摘要

Here's a tip: Don't start cleaning the area around your external network-attached storage (NAS) drive when it's backing up. Odds are that you're going to smack it. I did, and so a perfectly functioning 1 Tbyte drive, with my whole life stored on it, almost became a perfectly functioning doorstop. The NAS drive in question is a 1 Tbyte Western Digital My Book World Edition, which I used for backing up multiple computers and for music streaming using a Sonos audio network via the shared router. While the device itself was dead, it was not, a problem to recover the data from my other external hard drive and back it up to the shiny new 3-Tbyte drive.