WD My Book users wake up to find their data deleted
&gt; “It is very scary and devastating that someone can do factory restore on my drive without any permission granted from the end user,” one user wrote.<p>I&#x27;ll say again: backup drives must have a physical write enable switch on them. To all the people who argue against this - just you wait till it happens to you!<p>Not having multiple backups is also a very bad idea. One day my 8T drive slipped out of my hand and smacked on the floor. That was the end of it. But I wasn&#x27;t out my data, just out the cost of another drive.<p>Cloud backup is a stupid idea. At any moment it could go dark, for any reason, and you have no recourse. Might as well bare your throat and hand some random stranger a razor.