Western Digital-owned SanDisk isn't doing great at the moment, with frustrated customers complaining that their valuable data is at risk due to failing SSDs. Although the company...
Anyone have details about which drives or which years of production etc? Article seems to imply in general without specifics.
Also I believe in variety being a good thing when it comes to storage and not relying too much on a single disk, on a basic consumer level anyways where it’s easy to do unless you have a really high amount of data.
Must be all of them. I got a san disk SSD years ago (when sky lake was first release so 10 years ago?) and it completely died in less than 12 months, I was actually speechless. I had to fight the company I bought it from to get it returned but eventually they accepted it, and sent it bask to san disk for analysis… moral of the story: never buy a san disk SSD. They have OK SD cards, but that’s about it.
Ironically I still have a working OCZ drive with a Sand Force controller that’s long outlived that san disk POS and the sand force controller was well known for failure and being awful
Anyone have details about which drives or which years of production etc? Article seems to imply in general without specifics.
Also I believe in variety being a good thing when it comes to storage and not relying too much on a single disk, on a basic consumer level anyways where it’s easy to do unless you have a really high amount of data.
I own a 2 TB model purchased in January of 2020 that I primarily use for Time Machine backups. I have not experienced any issues (thus far).
There seems to be mixed opinions & information available as to whether the issue(s) affect all models, specific years, specific sizes, etc.
Must be all of them. I got a san disk SSD years ago (when sky lake was first release so 10 years ago?) and it completely died in less than 12 months, I was actually speechless. I had to fight the company I bought it from to get it returned but eventually they accepted it, and sent it bask to san disk for analysis… moral of the story: never buy a san disk SSD. They have OK SD cards, but that’s about it.
Ironically I still have a working OCZ drive with a Sand Force controller that’s long outlived that san disk POS and the sand force controller was well known for failure and being awful