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Of course they do, because even if they know based on their internal testing that its a hardware issue, they are going to fight tooth and nail against a recall or doing anything to help the consumers affected. They will never publicly admit wrongdoing. It will likely take a class action lawsuit where they will settle without admitting wrongdoing and each person affected gets a buck fiddy for their troubles. (They will settle because going to court and dealing with discovery means they would be caught knowing this was a problem and hiding it anyway.)
Why? Because capitalists gonna capitalist. They want none of the risk associated with profit and all the profit associated with risk. They want to have their cake and eat it, too.
They permanently lost my business based on all of the reports of problems with their drives. I recently bought Samsung SSDs.
I was always suspicious of SanDisk to begin with. I'd had loads of bad USB thumbsticks from them in the past 15 years.
This... just doesn't seem that far fetched for them. They never seemed like a truly quality brand, but maybe that's just me.
But yeah, it pretty much solidifies my stance of skipping over SanDisk.
Samsung is indeed preferable, overall. I quite like their speedy USB 3.0 slim thumbsticks.
I'll take Crucial for SSDs if I can't get my hands on a Samsung, but SanDisk is right out. They're somehow even worse than Kingston.
Kind sad, they used to be the gold standard. I don't think getting bought by Western digital did them any favors.
That seems to happen all too often. A company does well and gets purchased by another company. The new company drastically lowers quality while retaining high quality prices and rides a wave of profits during that period before consumers figure out the company now makes garbage.
Aren't almost all (if not all) the storage manufacturers guilty of futzing up their production at some point? In the different threads concerning this issue with SanDisk, I'm pretty sure I've read of people recounting issues with many of the different manufacturers.
Doesn't help that there seem to be fewer real options thanks to consolidation over the years.
Yes they all do, samsung literally had a problem earlier this year
It's about how companies handle issues really and Sandisk has not handled it well.
100% this
Fuck these massive companies not having consequences.
Fuck Neofeudalism
The old is new and the new is old. We're stuck in an endless ant mill.
I hunted around just yesterday for an external 'drive' and there are some brands I avoid but it's hard as about every search result is either "BUY IT HERE" or "100 best external drives 2023" or "Usb devices come in a long range of different ways to let users both use them as a way to store, but also access and back up important information, might it be ... (AARGH)" ...
I hope I went ok with a crucial X9 Pro 1TB (109€ shipping included). I won't be using it a lot, mostly for swapping around data (second kids getting my 2600X 2060RTX).
Well well here I am explaining things a bit too much, but almost by the fireplace, thanks for listening and good night ❤️.
I've not heard anything bad about crucials external ssd devices
You could always just get a nvme ssd and an enclosure, might even be a bit cheaper to do so.
Something like these two https://a.co/d/fky2wil https://a.co/d/d3rXqG7
Yeah thought almost exactly about that, but then again I thought I could also go with an existing HDD (2.5 or a 3.5 why not, I won't move it around much, got some old sub TB ones) and a cheap enclosure, and I think finally the 5 year guarantee (which for me is worthless in money, but at least hints that it's not garbage) and the fast usb that should actually work without a hassle made me jump ship.
It's a smart setup though, if it works!
Cheers
Get a NVME and m.2 USB case. Might not be cheaper but almost everywhere else better.
Too late :-) but then you have to get a good case without flimsy fittings and good speed. You also now have two points of failure sort of.
Shouldn't it be cheaper though?
Same as in the external SSD, except you can't replace just one part there.
Price, dunno. Never had issues with speed or fittings, just read the description.
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I'm a simple man, I see a The Jerk reference, I upvote.
All this time spent doing and so little time spent stopping and asking
Why?The ol Apple playbook in use.