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“We just lost 3TB of data on a SanDisk Extreme SSD” - The Verge (www.theverge.com)
submitted 2 years 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] 5 points 2 years ago

I use mine for desaster recovery.

Using tineshift to take hourly snapshots of my laptop computer.

I don't think my laptop and the drive fail at the same time so I think my use case is safe even with these risky drives.