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?

  • Deniablesummer@lemmy.worldEnglish
    182·
    2 years ago

    “I put 3TB of irreplaceable data on a single drive, and want to blame anyone but myself for my data loss”

    Go away with this garbage.

    I personally have a NAS with 12TB striped over 3 drives, I sure wouldn’t blame WD if one drive failed and I lost everything.

    • Zak@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      2 years ago

      The claim here seems to be that the product has an unusual failure rate, the manufacturer has acknowledged the original problem and released a fix, and it does not appear to be fixed. I don’t read it as a sob story about some reporter’s lost data.

    • stephen01king@lemmy.zipEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Let’s see you bring your raid NAS on an out of country video shoot.

      Edit: Misread the comment. My reply isn’t addressing the actual point he made.

    • InfiniteStruggle@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      2·
      2 years ago

      Ooh ooooh look at me everybody I’m so much smarter than this IDIOT that expected the devices he PAID FOR to work as advertised and the company to be honest and straightforward with firmware issues and updates

      I run this better system than NORMIES and even if it fails (because I’m an idiot) I DONT CARE ABOUT THE DATA on them because iT DiDn’T mATteR tO Me iN tHe fIrSt PlAcE.

      PS For people wondering about the second paragraph, check this guy’s other comments in this thread.

    • electromage@lemm.eeEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      These drives have a very different use case than a rack mount NAS. They’re portable ruggedized devices for field use, like dumping content from your camera so you can keep shooting. Two would be better but it sounds like a known flaw that is causing random, frequent losses.