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We just lost 3TB of data on a SanDisk Extreme SSD (www.theverge.com)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Data being lost on a drive isn't a reason not to purchase. If it were then we would never buy any drives.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Data loss is a reason not to purchase if it happens more often than with competing products, and that may be the case with these.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

But a sample size of 1 or 2 does not prove it happens more than other products.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

Pretty sure the sample size is hundreds or thousands. SanDisk would not bother with a firmware “fix” for something that only affected 2 drives. I had a SanDisk I bought recently have this exact same issue and when I went searching for the problem it was reported in a lot of places.