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.
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 ❤️.
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?
You also now have two points of failure sort of.
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.
Something something $1.09
Well, SanDisk is definitely dead to me now.
faulty hardware is to blame for hardware faults? omg
Is it bad that I recently bought the SSD in the picture? It is, isn’t it.
It did behave oddly when I tried to use it to move a coworker’s data, but that coworker always has weird difficulties with tech so I just assumed. Now I know it’s just SanDisk going downhill. And that my knowledge of tech companies’ reputations is probably 10 years old.
…hmm, do i buy from A or from B, who refuted the obvious lack in quality control?
Are our hard drives shit?
No it’s the users who are shit.