Comment on “We just lost 3TB of data on a SanDisk Extreme SSD” - The Verge
SeriesOfTubers@lemmy.world 1 year agoAre you willing to accept an article from Ars Technica? arstechnica.com/…/sandisk-extreme-ssds-keep-abrup…
Do you think it’s not newsworthy if a manufacturer sells drives with a history of failures, releases a firmware update they claim will fix the issue, sends a replacement drive that also fails, and continues to sell the drives at a deep discount?
It’s definitely newsworthy, and the ars article is at least a bit more balanced. My main issue is the “I trusted my data to a single USB device, and was then furious when it died” clickbait. These journalists should know better than to store critical data in a single place.
If you can’t RMA the drives then that is a bigger problem, but that comes down to the consumer protection laws you have in your country.
These journalists should know better than to store critical data in a single place.
This again. Kindly point out to me where in the article they say they do not have another copy of that data. This is not an article about backup strategies, it is about repeated hardware failure and a known issue that is not being addressed by its manufacturer while selling affected drives at discount price.
OP should have posted this one, not that The Verge crap.
db2@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
The news can be legit and the Verge can suck simultaneously.
3laws@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Yes, please. The Verge can suck it every day forever and ever. Sometimes they still share real news, that doesn’t stop them from sucking.