So I guess, Samsung all day then.
Yeah, Samsung’s are superior in every way.
It’s the newer extreme pro models with faster transfer rates, not the older ones. Older ones are rock solid, have a dozen of them at work and things are amazing.
Lots of photographers on YT recommend this SSD.
So what’s the best alternative?
I’ve had an absolute nightmare just earlier this year with their ‘high performance’ SD cards. All kinds of errors, including but not limited to being completely unable to format them at all, even with advanced techniques.
After multiple weeks of back and forth and ending up refunding all of them and forgetting it completely…yeah. I wasn’t about to recommend them.
But now I’d actively encourage anyone to stay away. A company with products of such poor quality that you can’t even tell the real from the fake.
I had one of these Sandisk SSD’s and the usb c jack got a little wonky over time. I contacted support and they completely replaced it and paid for shipping. Super fast and made me a fan of their support. Sucks to read so many people have had issues lately, I thought they were one of the few companies left that actually honored their work and their warranties. Maybe I just got lucky?
I have a external from 15 years ago that won’t boot up anymore. Just one day I plugged it in and it wouldn’t run or ran and shut off. It literally sat on a shelf for years as storage and failed. I lost everything I had from the past 20 years.
My SanDisk microSD card just failed recently after a couple of months of use. It was the only one that broke. Don’t buy their crap.
Tossed about $5k worth of these drives and picked up Samsung t7 shields instead. It was a tough pill to swallow but I’m in production and I can’t take that sort of risk.
I was just about to buy a 2TB one of these to use with my M1 Macbook… sounds like that’s not a good idea, even on sale, right?
What would you guys recommend instead, if I am looking for a 2 - 4TB external drive that’s relatively portable and that’s not going to be in the super expensive category? Should I look into an NVMe drive and an external enclosure that supports thunderbolt? Open to any suggestions out there to try and take advantage of some of the holiday deals.
Dang would you look at that. Never really like SanDisk and switched away from them years ago. Had an SD card fail on me, switched to Samsung cards, haven’t had a problem since.
Damn, I was just about to buy a few of these for christmas.
Definitely skipping now.
I just ordered two of these for work. I looked up the competition for what to get and these have glowing reviews, as do other options that all seem identical. And everything is ultimately from one or two parent companies.
What’s the alternative??
TIL is SanDisk and not ScanDisk. It’s been 20 years, or so.
It took me seven months and hours of work to get those clowns to honor their warranty for a failed drive. There were dead links everywhere, broken email addresses, support lines where the calls dropped routinely. Not only did their product suck but they have the most dysfunctional warranty process I’ve ever seen. I eventually had to file a complaint with my state attorney general to get them to honor the warranty. I’m never buying SanDisk again.
Reminds me of the rigamarole I went through to file a warranty claim with Ticwatch. The warranty website randomly alternated from not loading to only loading the Italian version no matter what computer, network, or VPN I used. Intentional AF and super frustrating. I bought a Samsung after all of that, at least they honor warranties.
If TitsMcGrits is never buying them again, then I am out too.
But for real, you are 100% right. Their rep is trash. I’ll never purchase them again.
Sigh. Sandisk used to have best CF card years ago.
Meanwhile SanDisk SD cards always had an absolutely terrible reputation for high failure rates and terrible performance on anything involving random writes. I remember back in the PalmOS days that Palm officially recommended not using cards from SanDisk.
I don’t know where you got this reputation from. Been using them for 20 years and have never heard of high failure rates.
Ive used sandisk cards foe the past few years, no failures. Can’t say this feels like its the case. Every photographer I work with uses the same sandisk sd card (64/128/256gbs v30).
100% by design
PayPal and Subway have nonexistent customer service. PayPal’s phone will drop the call when selecting to making a claim. Subway seems to move everything to an automated system, so I got my bank to charge back after giving me someone else’s less expensive order.
It is the AI revolution at work.
Seagate has been no better within the last year. Maybe it’s just with their NAS hard drives. Bottom line is that these drives are failing and it takes 2-3 months if your lucky to get a recertified HD back. Wait, it gets better! Only to find out that the recertified drives fail straight out of the box.
I had 2 Seagate NAS drives fail within a month of getting them brand new. I got these in the beginning of July. I RMA’d both drives and it took at least 8 weeks to get RMA & ship them. Another 8 weeks to get them back. Only to have both fail right out of the box.
Only last week was I able to send them out for RMA. At this rate I will be lucky if I get the drives back in January. Will they work? Who the hell knows.
HGST drives are the only drive I will ever use for storage.
Backblaze reports have validated my stance.
There are only 2 kinds of storage… Those that have failed and those that will.
I had a new 1tb 7200rpm drive from 2016?ish that started having errors after 2 months of use. It still passes SMART and hasnt had any data loss, but it is firmly in the “do not store anything important on” category.
That’s… weird. I have to return a couple of Seagate drives a year (I have multiple NAS and have close to 50 Seagate drives running at any time).
The warranty return process takes 5 minutes online, and they send me a new drive that I get in 2-3 days, before I even send the defective one back. And this isn’t a one time thing, this is how it’s worked for me when dealing with Seagate for close to a decade.
I’m not sure how our experiences have been so different.
All drives fail eventually - but Seagate soured me on their brand years ago.
Decades ago, young me used to drive down to Fry’s and look at the posted paper flyer for deals.
A 100GB Seagate drive for a great price? I excitedly bought it, even though my work pile of dead drives mostly consisted of Seagate drives. Something something volume not representing something something complete.
2 months later, Seagate drive fails. The RMA process was quick and easy. 1 week later, that drive fails. RMA it. A month later, that drive fails.
Seagate says its the last drive they’ll replace as I must be killing them with my bad Seasonic power supply.
I replace it with a WD drive at the same price point. No issues.
Almost 20 years later, I still have my 480p *.mkv collection from tvtorrents.
Sure would be nice if our totally-not-corrupt government would crack down on companies offering warranties that they never honor. Maybe if we complain about it constantly for the next 20 years, they’ll give us a nice speech about it and pass a symbolic bill voicing their displeasure.
My Sandisk drive failed prematurely recently and I’d love to know where you started so I can save myself as much of a headache as possible.
I’m glad I didn’t see this post until two months after buying a SanDisk…