We just lost 3TB of data on a SanDisk Extreme SSD
www.theverge.com
How are these still on sale?

Anyone else have a similar experience with one of these drives?

    • HeartyBeast@kbin.social
      128·
      3 years ago

      Someone didn’t read the story. This is about a known firmware fault that the company is doing its best not to keep quiet. Don’t help them in that work

          • quicksand@lemmy.worldEnglish
            22·
            3 years ago

            This concept is revolutionary! What should we call this new form of information delivery?

          • dartos@reddthat.comEnglish
            6·
            3 years ago

            Yeah but the headline should let me know what the story is and make me interested. Not make me think the author is complaining that their SSD died.

            I don’t care about that. I don’t want to read an article about that.

        • HeartyBeast@kbin.social
          64·
          3 years ago

          There is absolutely nothing to say that the author didn’t have it backed up. He still lost 3TB of files from a new drive which was a replacement sent by the company, with a known fault supposedly fixed.

          “Herp derp he should have backed up” is not the takeaway here”

        • ominouslemon@lemm.eeEnglish
          19·
          3 years ago

          Still, if SSDs fail repeatedly, something’s not right. That’s the point of the article

        • harmonea@kbin.social
          17·
          3 years ago

          So because backups exist, everyone should be okay with buying bad hardware?

          I know you’re not actually saying that, but countering “this is a known firmware fault” with a reminder that backups should be done sure makes it look like you’re saying that. There’s still value in making sure consumers’ money goes to products that last.

          • PupBiru@kbin.social
            1·
            3 years ago

            i think it’s the “we just lost 3TB of data” part… either the headline is hyperbole, in which case screw the clickbaint… or they lost 3TB of data which is always a good time to remind people that cheap NAND flash is cheap NAND flash

      • Serinus@lemmy.mlEnglish
        18·
        3 years ago

        The use case for these drives is always a single point of failure. It’s camera footage out in the field. You have to get it home before you have proper storage.

        Do you have a dashcam for your vehicle? Do you have backups before you get the footage home?