We just lost 3TB of data on a SanDisk Extreme SSD
www.theverge.com
How are these still on sale?

Anyone else have a similar experience with one of these drives?

  • CameronDev@programming.devEnglish
    252·
    2 years ago

    “I have a defective drive, therefore all drives are defective”

    Storage can fail at any time, that’s why important data should be backed up.

    Dunno what more to expect from the Verge. Have they tried putting thermal paste on it?

    • SeriesOfTubers@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      2 years ago

      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?

      • CameronDev@programming.devEnglish
        01·
        2 years ago

        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.

        • RBG@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
          1·
          2 years ago

          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.

      • db2@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        01·
        2 years ago

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

      • CameronDev@programming.devEnglish
        0·
        2 years ago

        I did read it, and that was the point that jumped out at me as worth commenting on.

        The rest of the WD RMA fuckery wasn’t really that unexpected, although definitely disappointing. If the article had focused on that I wouldn’t even have commented.

        I have since found out that these drives are used as the storage for some video cameras, which is definitely a use case where backups are not feasible, and maybe that is what happened to the Verge.

        But in all other uses, we should strive to have backups for our data, and given most people don’t backup correctly (myself included) it’s always worth having a reminder of the that… And to be clear, I’m not saying you need to have RAID99 zfs, even a second disk with a manual copy could save a ton of heartache and stress.