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

Aside from design defects, most items havr a bathtub curve for reliability. Stuff either fails very early on, or very late.

These drives are obviously defective. But USB harddrives in general should be used for copying data from point A to B, or storing secondary/tertiary copies of data. But definitely not long term storage of valuable data.

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

Agreed, all my external drives are backups of music, ebooks, and porn.