Patriot hosts their files on dropbox - it's a mess

So I’ve got a Patriot Spark SSD that’s otherwise pretty fine.
On a whim I decided to update the firmware

I navigated to the page, and hovered over the download link, wait really… Dropbox??

Click!

That’s just… tragic…

Can a company like patriot not host their documents & software on their own website? Seriously?

Even all the other documents on the page are hosted on other domains. That’s just sad :sob:

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Another one:

Here it’s on sharepoint…

WAT?

And totally broken

https://patriotmem.sharepoint.com/sites/Public2/_layouts/15/download.aspx?share=EUXAwv44HA5FgmaHFmCQ7sgBJ3hMnYbLH26FSAVubTChfA

I also have the distinct impression that the server is just vomiting garbage in ram at me :neutral_face:

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  • How does this even happen?

  • How did anyone think this is acceptable for a business?

  • How did they think that this will be reliable?

The amount of questions this brings up is way too many! :zipper_mouth_face:

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My theory how this happenend is this:

  1. Use dropbox internally to share files.
  2. Be careless and lazy.
  3. Web Admin / Editor enables link sharing on dropbox file.
  4. Copy Paste dropbox link/old sharepoint link on web page.
  5. Go back to playing minecraft at work?
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Not enough money for an Amazon hosted download?

It blows my mind that they do this because it’s clear they have a web host, so it disappoints me that they don’t just upload the files to their server.

S3 costs to host this data couldn’t be that much.

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I think that is the real answer why.

From a business perspective, they need to keep people on the payroll whose job is to take care of stuff like this.

They have 80 employees total on linked in, so probably ~100 - ~150 in reality, hiring a competent unicorn-like sysadmin/webmaster is hard for a small company like that.