Kingston is often overlooked but it’s been the most reliable to me for many years.
Talk anout the lexar ssds They are pure shite
I wondered what the opinion of Lexar was. I’ve several uhs-ii sd cards. They don’t seem that fast.
I’ve bought these ssd’s from them SAME model. Almost 6 o em. 3 of em failed the first weeks
I have three of these to offload video from shoots. Now I can’t trust them so I have to find an alternative. WD should take notice that professionals have very long memories when it comes to equipment they can’t depend on. I used to trust WD above all other storage companies. Now, I’ll be looking at other brands.
Just make your own M.2 dump drive with a cheap enclosure and and m.2. They’re tool-less now and fairly rugged. Faster than these sandisks as well.
Yup. That’s exactly what I’m looking at. It’s just a PITA that I have three paper weights that I can never sell. Maybe Christmas ornaments?
You considered WD above even Samsung?
Samsung isn’t the cleanest with history either
Isn’t it? They produce the flash memory themselves. Also didn’t they do the biggest recall in history with the note 7
Earlier this year they had major firmware issues bricking 980 and 990 pro SSDs and their response was atrocious. They only did something about it after getting enough bad press for denying countless warranty claims.
thankfully that was a software issue so I was able to fix mine before it shit the bed. Unfortunately the problem for WD is actually hardware based.
Did make me think twice about buying samsung in the future tho.
recall in history with the note 7
I mean if we are throwing in their other product lines, Samsung appliances are notoriously bad. Especially their fridges.
Samsung famously had problems with their 970 EVO drives.
That.
I have an Evo 860, Evo 980 and Pro 980 all die in 16 months.
One failure, ok.
Two failures, could be coincidence,
but 3 complete failures across different product lines and you a systematic production problem.
To be fair, Samsung has really only been part if the equation since SSDs became a thing. In the spinning platter era, if you wanted reliability it was either WD or Segate.
Remember the deathstar disaster?
For spinning platter, they all had periods of huge quality drops.
Like Seagate turned awful after buying Maxtor.Seagate has had their moments long before that. Their Medalist series comes to mind.
I had a baracuda go bad like 15 years ago and still don’t trust seagate to this day
Exactly.
Fuck, i’ve bought one of those 2TB v2 models a couple of months ago.
I have a battletank of a Samsung 120GB SSD from 2013 with nearly 70,000 hours on it. the “odometer” read 9.2 - ish TBW last time I checked.
EDIT: I got it from a thrift store in 2021. It was contained within an Ivy Bridge based PC.
Just reading this makes me nervous, please back up your stuff to a new one. 🙏
These things absolutely suck. Mine disconnects randomly and is a bear to mount at times.
Mine dismounts itself routinely as well.
Mine just failed on me after about 4 months. Goodbye to them.
Friends don’t let friends buy SanDisk…
I would not trust any ssd from sandisk/western digital
What about sea gate?
In case you’re not joking. I wouldn’t trust them solely because of how awful their mechanical hard drives were last I checked and I haven’t even looked into their ssds.
I bought 8 x Seagate HDD’s at once one year. The first one failed a week after the warranty ran out. All of them failed within a year of that.
Personally I really like western digital for internal drives (and portable ones for that matter). I’ve had 3 seagate drives and all three have been the only drives to ever fail for me.
western digital hdds are still good. their ssds are hit or miss.
HA just like Adata does with their S70 Blade.
I ordered one of these a couple of months ago and returned it as soon as it was received after I saw there’s a class action lawsuit. I went with Seagate instead and it’s been working good so far.
I went with a samsung ssd after hearing these reports
“firmware issue that impacted certain SanDisk Extreme Pro 1TB, 2TB, and 4TB, SanDisk Extreme 4TB, and WD My Passport SSD 4TB portable SSDs”
I have a SanDisk Extreme 2TB SSD, but I’m not sure if this is one of the affected drives. Mine is not the ‘Pro’ version and doesn’t seem to be on this list. Is this SSD safe to continue using for serious storage?
Your drive is not one of the specific models indicated. As to being safe, that is the question everyone wants to know. Data storage is important to everyone, but this particularly impacts professional use like media companies and creators who transfer and work with huge files on a daily basis. If they are encountering problems now, will others suffer them later? Western Digital, who owns Sandisk, is not answering many questions or inspiring confidence at any level.
Don’t buy Western Digital. They have no customer support structure anymore and their digital apps are busted. I bought one of their best external solid states to use as a back up and it was supposed to be accessible remotely (over the WiFi) as well. Not only did it fail at backing anything up, and their apps not work and, in fact, slow down my laptop and resist being uninstalled, but their customer support was non-existent.
I returned it and got my money back.
I’m old enough to remember when Maxtor drives were the bomb, the seagate bought out the company. Bought one of their barracuda drives that had the infamous firmware issues, effectively killed the brand for consumers. Also the Hitachi “deathstar” drives till they got bought out as well.