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Reminder that SanDisk didn't do a recall. Even after reports of failure for a year.
They STILL didn't do a recall.
I think the only way they’ll ever do one is if a court forces them to.
Not only did they NOT do a recall, they also did NOT execute any kind of customer outreach program to advise about the very real possibility of data loss. And then to just shit all over everyone, they put all the affected products on sale with deep discounts - presumably to sell them as fast as possible before the bad bress became more widely heard.
Well, SanDisk is definitely dead to me now.
Are our hard drives shit?
No it's the users who are shit.
Let them refute all they want. I just bought a MicroSD and a SSD and wouldn't even consider Sandisk.
They replaced a 2tb extreme portable SSD for me and it seems to do the same thing, it disconnects from my mac randomly. I just use it to copy files around now... I had read they had that new firmware for the 4TB but at the time not for mine, contacted support and they just replaced it, I doubt they even considered it had a wide spread defect.
I'm sure all of their extreme pro models all shitting the bed at my company had nothing to do with them being faulty considering only a few worked after their firmware patch.
Is it bad that I recently bought the SSD in the picture? It is, isn't it.
It did behave oddly when I tried to use it to move a coworker's data, but that coworker always has weird difficulties with tech so I just assumed. Now I know it's just SanDisk going downhill. And that my knowledge of tech companies' reputations is probably 10 years old.
...hmm, do i buy from A or from B, who refuted the obvious lack in quality control?
So which brand should I pick for my sd ?
Samsung I guess? Never had an issue with any of their flash media.
Lexar is a good option
faulty hardware is to blame for hardware faults? omg
No, no, it can't be our hardware. It's all the users who are wrong!