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Seriously? What's the point of owning the hardware then, might as well just use Dropbox? Seems like you take on all the risk for essentially no benefit.

• gruez 5y ago
  >What's the point of owning the hardware then, might as well just use Dropbox? Seems like you take on all the risk for essentially no benefit. Dropbox costs $120/year for 2TB. WD live looks to be a one time purchase price for however many terabytes you want.
  • cmeacham98 5y ago
    To be honest, I just assumed the "Live" service was a subscription but it actually does appear to be one-time. I should note, however, that it seems the drive is built in and not easily user replaceable/swappable, so it's not really "however many terabytes you want".
  • thebean11 5y ago
    Hard drives are consumable devices. Dropbox sounds like a better deal considering you get redundancy, don’t need to replace drives when they fail, can recover deleted files for some amount of time (I think)..
    • Spivak 5y ago
      This is much much less of a problem for consumer workloads. A pair of hard drives can last a household a decade of moderate use without needing replaced.
      • thebean11 5y ago
        Sure in the best case. They could also fail 2 years in so you need redundancy to not lose data.
  • phire 5y ago
    Except turns out it wasn't a one-time purchase. Turns out that if you wanted your data to actually be safe, you had buy a new device every time Western Digital dropped support and stopped releasing security updates (3-4 years after launch), copy your data across and throw out the old device.