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“We just lost 3TB of data on a SanDisk Extreme SSD” - The Verge (www.theverge.com)
submitted 1 year ago by chackl to c/technology
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Anyone else have a similar experience with one of these drives?

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[–] SeriesOfTubers 101 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Are you willing to accept an article from Ars Technica? https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/05/sandisk-extreme-ssds-keep-abruptly-failing-firmware-fix-for-only-some-promised/

Do you think it's not newsworthy if a manufacturer sells drives with a history of failures, releases a firmware update they claim will fix the issue, sends a replacement drive that also fails, and continues to sell the drives at a deep discount?

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The news can be legit and the Verge can suck simultaneously.

[–] 3laws -2 points 1 year ago

Yes, please. The Verge can suck it every day forever and ever. Sometimes they still share real news, that doesn't stop them from sucking.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's definitely newsworthy, and the ars article is at least a bit more balanced. My main issue is the "I trusted my data to a single USB device, and was then furious when it died" clickbait. These journalists should know better than to store critical data in a single place.

If you can't RMA the drives then that is a bigger problem, but that comes down to the consumer protection laws you have in your country.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

These journalists should know better than to store critical data in a single place.

This again. Kindly point out to me where in the article they say they do not have another copy of that data. This is not an article about backup strategies, it is about repeated hardware failure and a known issue that is not being addressed by its manufacturer while selling affected drives at discount price.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My colleague Vjeran just lost 3TB of video we’d shot for The Verge because the drive is no longer readable.

If they have a backup they wouldn't have lost anything. Data is only lost when you no long have access to the last copy.

The article should have just kept to the repeated hardware failure, and not waffled on about the lost data.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Thanks for the edit, I was not aware of that either.