i486 said:
I'll never trust cloud-based storage, or storage devices that have become part of a network of devices. The more standalone they remain, the more secure they are.
Agreed, I have a back-up solution that has short term internal back-up drives, mid term external back-up drives( Lacie 2BIG ) and then important projects backed up and archived long term, the drives iare taken out of the enclosure, labeled and stored outside of my workstation system. A bit extreme, but, losing all my hard work would really suck.

It only took one SSD to fail ( no warning ) with around 3 months work for me to put my back-up system in place. I use Adobe cloud for some things, the over reliance on cloud based storage is a worry. But, the WD issue should not happen!