Comment on SanDisk Extreme SSDs are “worthless,” multiple lawsuits against WD say

Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• jsh@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Every drive in my computer: NVME, SSD, and HDD is a WD drive. 🫣

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  • nurple@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    So far these issues only apply to these specific SSDs … fingers crossed it stays that way, because like you I’ve got a number of WD HDDs in my life.

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    • AbidanYre@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      WD got in trouble not too long ago for deceptively marketing shingled drives as conventional. Back to back issues like this is going to leave a lasting impression on the kinds of people who buy drives.

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      • nurple@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I agree, I don’t buy WD drives any more. But I don’t want to replace the ones I already have unless it’s necessary.

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    • Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      “so far” is the operative word.

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      • xantoxis@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I think the key thing here is that older drives you already own are probably ok. At least if they’re a year old or so.

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• MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  And frankly, your data should never be in question. Short of a drive failure where the whole drive dies, which would require data recovery services, your data should be safely stored. IMO that’s the premise of data storage; and bluntly, it’s the only job it has… To store, keep, and retrieve data when asked.

  If it cannot do that, or has any nontrivial risk of being unable to do that, then it’s not worth the plastics that make up the case. Unless you’re using the drive as a temp/scrub/whatever disk, it’s unusable in my opinion.

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• RootBeerGuy@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  So what did you end up buying and was that just random choice or based on some research/experience?

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  • Qualanqui@lemmy.nz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Samsung, bit more pricey but both my ssd and ram are both Samsung chips and I haven’t had a single problem with either.

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    • Vlyn@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Samsung has been hit or miss. For example EVO 840 were a mess a few years ago, had two of them, both slowed to a crawl (Firmware issue, Samsung never managed to fix it).

      It’s all a mess :-/

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