SanDisk's Name is Now Mud
SanDisk's Name is Now Mud
Poor response to widespread failure reports has resulted in a tarnished reputation.
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So what's a better quality option?
So far I only bought Samsung SSDs
for internal use and expanded that to Crucial as well.Only heard good things about Sabrent, Kioxia and Samsung so far and not much bad.
Samsung consumer SSD have a well-earned black mark on their reputation as of late.
Is this referring to firmware?
Most likely the 990 issue and I believe the 980 as well.
I've bought exclusively WD storage for many years. Mostly because I've never had a failure, and hadn't read anything terrible about reliability. Well, all that changed this year.
My newest portable drive (Passport Ultra USB-C 2TB) has only 30 hours (40 power cycles) on it, and is clicking/chirping and abnormally slow while writing anything. Probably dying, at least it warned me. It will need to be replaced, at my cost (just out if warranty of course). Combined with SanDisk failures, and complete silence from WD... I'm done with them.
I'm moving to Samsung. I've already bought a replacement (T7 Shield SSD 2TB), and also an M2 NVME (980 Pro with Heatsink) for PC OS refresh later. Hoping to move almost all the things to Samsung SSDs in coming years, outside of 1-2 large Seagate HDDs for NAS.
Bye WD. I do not tolerate reliability issues when it comes to data storage. Or silence from companies when there are massive public failures. Or buying out and destroying the competition.
My SanDisk 512GB 3D had a similar behaviour issue.
Read was okayish but writing was exorbitant slow for a SSD at 10MB/s sequential.
Backup Asap.Interesting. I've only had one brand of SS/flash drive actually fail (ADATA UE700, and replacement). But most of mine seem to heat up very quickly, then soon throttle the speeds (probably to mitigate further heat or death). The T7 will be my first portable SSD for larger backups, and I hope it handles heat much better.
I am/was using mostly WD Passport HDDs for backups, which I disconnect and put in a safe. Shocked that this newest one has only 30 hours usage, very gentle handling (same as others), yet it's apparently failing. (So tired of worrying about tiny fragile spinning disks and mechanisms!) Will backup, and try deleting some files, hoping maybe it just hates being nearly full (about 70-80%). SMART data says it's healthy, but maybe would until it's too late.
My sandisk ssd also said it's "healthy". If it shows abnormal behavior for now reason it's getting faulty. Expected heat (like a good data transfer) is not abnormal but my problem happened with every data transfer.
Both CrystalDisk and the Sandisk tool said it was healthy. Took me 2 or 3h to fully transfer about 250gb from my ssd to my new one.
seconding this
For memory Samsung all day. Micro/SD cards etc the big camera manufacturers source solid stuff if you aren’t a fan of Samsung.
If you’re talking about readers I don’t think anyone does anything particularly well. Anker might be my preferred brand though. Lots of companies rip them off.