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Why do companies have to behave so shady 😔
There's aren't a lot of manufacturers producing 512GB+ micro sd cards... not sure if Sandisk/WD is worth the risk after this news
I wonder how representative the Extreme portable drives are to their SD cards. SanDisk cards have always been extremely reliable. I assume the Extreme drives are fabricated in a different factory or even outsourced to some random Shenzhen plant. Worrying is the idea that they’ve done the same with SD cards.
All the more reason for them to be transparent, name the problem, remove the affected stock from sale, set up some kind of recovery and/or compensation service, and write off the loss. Otherwise "SanDisk" will mean "you have shit on your shoe" forever. In the storage space a brand has to mean "safe" or its dead.
Maybe they are still finding the edges of the problem. Maybe.