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SanDisk’s silence deafens as high-profile users say Extreme SSDs still broken. SanDisk is ignoring lost data claims. It's time to ignore the company's SSDs.
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- Authors
- Scharon Harding
- Published
- Aug 10 2023
- Word count
- 750 words
This is unacceptable. Thank you for sharing the article, I am never buying anything of WD/Sandisk again
I know its not nearly as bad as what's happening here, but I stopped buying SanDisk a couple years ago for a similar reason. I had several of their microSD and they all suddenly stopped with no signs of life after about 6 months of use. 2 in raspberry pi, 1 in a 3ds, and 1 in a camera.
I had been told raspberry pi are bad about corrupting their SD but haven't had a single other microSD fail in them since replacing the SanDisk ones. Luckily I replaced the one in my switch before it went. Maybe I got a bad batch considering how popular their SD cards are. It just really rubbed me the wrong way so I've been avoiding their more expensive hardware like the plague.
Ya, Raspberry Pi's are harder on cards but they're not THAT hard on cards.
Part of the reputation is also because people and industries are putting them in boxes with no ventilation and use very cheap cards and then you loose all your data that you didn't back up or in the case of industry, you have an expensive thing stop working in the field causing all sorts of issues.
Which company have you switched to?
Personally I've mostly used Seagate in the past, but always open to more options
Most of mine now are Samsung. For stuff where I'm not as concerned with reliability I have a couple PNY. They haven't given me any issues so far. They're just so cheap I worry about them sometimes.
Western Digital, SanDisk, and Seagate have been on my "do not buy" shitlist for decades after numerous hard drive failures back-to-back with all three makers. Toshiba is very close to being on the list as well. Samsung, on the other hand, I can recommend for HDs. I've purchased several from them and never had issues.
How the mighty have fallen. Regardless of what they do, it sounds like too much of a risk to trust them with data in the future.
The mighty certainly have. About 10 years ago I set up a rig to continuously run badblocks on MicroSD cards from several major manufacturers until the point of failure. The SanDisk were far and away the best, and that product still uses them, though 64gb now rather than the 8gb of that time.
I'm annoyed that I just bought one two months ago. The SSD is still holding up, luckily the SSD is a working files backup. But still, I wished I knew this problem earlier.
I've noticed more and more that items like cameras are adamant that you have to get a specific brand of SSD to use in their product or it won't work. I thought they were simplifying things, giving you the specific model with the correct speed and capacity; now I wonder if they had actually been having issues with people calling in for support on a specific popular brand.
Cameras in particular will have very strict performance requirements. Either your SD card is consistently fast enough to write 4k video or ultra high res photos to as fast as the camera produces them, or it's not.
Cameras also spend most of their time writing to the SD card, whereas most other applications for SD cards are more read-intensive. This means cameras really want something with good write endurance.