Ars TechnicaSanDisk Extreme SSDs are still wiping data after firmware “fix,” users say
SanDisk's ignoring lost data claims. It's time to ignore the company's SSDs.
Silversalty@arstechnica
But they don't spontaneously catch fire, so corp can keep looking for that last buck.
But they don't spontaneously catch fire, so corp can keep looking for that last buck.
Prior Industry 🇺🇦@arstechnica Maybe they are actually selling digital file shredders.
Bruce Heerssen 
@bruce @arstechnica Once your files are shredded you can shred the SSD in that. Perfect, flawless system.
Ron Gilbert (GrumpyGamer)@arstechnica I've owned these drives for several years without a problem, but I bought 2 new ones a few months ago and they both failed.
Zorin =^o.o^=@arstechnica It literally has ONE. JOB.
Nicola@arstechnica WD and seagate have systematically ruined every brand they have touched - once upon a time we had reliable disk storage brands that started with letters Q and M
Haui111@arstechnica thats not the way to do it. The way to do it is twofold: canceling them publicly (posting a warning in every newspaper bot to buy sandisk anymore) and then pulling the rug with a class action lawsuit.
The issue with big companies (or companies in general for this case) is they’re allowed to make unrealistic claims (google how food pictures for menus are made) and then use their influence/money to get out of every problem. I say we do the same. Crucify them to rebalance the system.
ᴚ uɐᗡ@arstechnica more like sans-disk amirite
Chilly Dee Williams@arstechnica I mean, it is called "Extreme."
Mr. Completely@arstechnica hi Ars, please use alt text on images, thanks!
ChrisHolt@arstechnica Almost ordered two of these yesterday. Thanks ars!
vince@arstechnica yeah, this has been really disheartening given my positive experience with SanDisk (micro)SD cards for years. so far, thankfully, i've only hit the data loss with redundant/ephemeral data (local content caching mostly). but, i can't trust any of the SSDs as more than a tertiary backup (after the second time wiping ≈a TB of cached content and maxing out ISP bandwidth overage charges redownloading it from other devices, i switched to unlimited data... didn't "lose" anything, but ongoing ISP costs were incurred)
deeply regretting purchasing ≈70TB of these around a year ago...
Steve Hersey@arstechnica
Write-only memory!
Write-only memory!
Michael Vilain@arstechnica When they started having thermal problems with their thumb drives, I decided I was done with SanDisk as a brand.
Glad I walked away. Samsung or a "build your own" is what I have now and I don't regret it.
Axel Foley@arstechnica I tend to buy Crucial 👍
Anthony Cowley@arstechnica Good time to run an article reviewing options for USB attached storage devices!
Mufasa#WesternDigital's #SSD Failures Stoke #ClassActionLawsuit Over #SanDiskExtremePro
Plaintiff says unreliability of the SSD means it is "worthless" for its intended purpose.
