ScamDisk
I use one of these to hold all my expansions and samples for my MPC. Got it from Walmart maybe 2 months ago.
I was just looking at these at my local Costco. I’m glad I saw this article. It’s like a Public Service Announcement.
Costco has an awesome returns policy but of course they don’t cover data loss. Gonna avoid that purchase.
Same, i was about to buy one yesterday till the articles started appearing…ill pass.
Don’t. Had two go down in about a week. Absolute trash. This is basically how you ruin a company, I’ll never buy their stuff again.
I saw the news about the Sandisk drives like 2 months ago when I was shopping at CostCo. Save $30 and got a 1TB Lexar with 2,000MB/s read writes and a bonus 64 Gig thumb drive instead, it’s been good so far.
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 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. 🙏
Fuck, i’ve bought one of those 2TB v2 models a couple of months ago.
I had one of their internal Ultra 3D drives fail on me two weeks ago. I can ship it off for a free replacement, but I don’t want to install it just for it to fail again. I bought it in June. First time I’ve ever had an SSD fail.
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.
I had a baracuda go bad like 15 years ago and still don’t trust seagate to this day
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.
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.
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.
Remember the deathstar disaster?
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.
Exactly.
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?
These things absolutely suck. Mine disconnects randomly and is a bear to mount at times.
Mine dismounts itself routinely as well.
I would not trust any ssd from sandisk/western digital
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.
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.
Crap I bought these to avoid WD and they’re actually WD. Ugh have had one since 2020. I should check it.
Same here lol, and it’s currently shipping.
Have pictures of my dead husband and some of his programming projects. I don’t know what other storage to move it to. I’ve only had bad experiences with WD since the first one I bought in 2010.
Double it up with a cloud backup like backblaze
Corporation gaslight-It’s not us, it’s you.
Here and in many threads, it appears consumers are happy with these drives for a few months until they fail within a year. That might explain the positive reviews on retail sites after purchase. But there is no way to check longer satisfaction or percentage of products that fail prematurely.
If the data recovery firm in the article sees one failed drive per week, just in Hamburg, how many other data recovery firms in the world are seeing a similar failure rate? A logical way to determine whether a recall should be issued under lemon laws is to survey such firms. They could also volunteer the information on forums if simply to promote their services. Haven’t governments also spent money on these drives and seek a remedy like the rest of us? By the time the class action suits are settled in a couple of years from now, these drives will have already been replaced.
I just bought a WD Black SSD for my steamdeck. Am I screwed or does this just affect the sandisk SSDs?
I bought 1 of these and it failed within 2 months