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SanDisk Extreme SSDs are “worthless,” multiple lawsuits against WD say (arstechnica.com)
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[–] 98 points 3 years ago* (5 children)

I'm really furious at this. I bought a bunch in the past two years as that's my go-to brands for my backup solutions. And in the past week, had to buy different brands to diversify.

My main takeaway:

Don't buy SanDisk. Don't buy Western Digital.

I don't care if it's only a few models. I'm not risking my data.

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  • [–] 45 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Every drive in my computer: NVME, SSD, and HDD is a WD drive. 🫣

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  • [–] 30 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    So far these issues only apply to these specific SSDs ... fingers crossed it stays that way, because like you I've got a number of WD HDDs in my life.

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  • [–] 18 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    WD got in trouble not too long ago for deceptively marketing shingled drives as conventional. Back to back issues like this is going to leave a lasting impression on the kinds of people who buy drives.

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  • [–] 26 points 3 years ago

    And frankly, your data should never be in question. Short of a drive failure where the whole drive dies, which would require data recovery services, your data should be safely stored. IMO that's the premise of data storage; and bluntly, it's the only job it has... To store, keep, and retrieve data when asked.

    If it cannot do that, or has any nontrivial risk of being unable to do that, then it's not worth the plastics that make up the case. Unless you're using the drive as a temp/scrub/whatever disk, it's unusable in my opinion.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    So what did you end up buying and was that just random choice or based on some research/experience?

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  • [–] 6 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (1 child)

    Samsung, bit more pricey but both my ssd and ram are both Samsung chips and I haven't had a single problem with either.

    E. Seems that further down the thread someone is saying Samsung is having issues too, which is dissapointing as I've always trusted Samsung.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Samsung has been hit or miss. For example EVO 840 were a mess a few years ago, had two of them, both slowed to a crawl (Firmware issue, Samsung never managed to fix it).

    It's all a mess :-/

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    Ye definitely hit or miss, they've been excellent for me. I got the 970 EVO last year or the year before and it's been rock solid, my RAM is also Samsung chips albeit B die so higher bin which probably explains why I've never had a single issue with them in 4 odd years.

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