Reports of defective external SSDs from SanDisk have been increasing since the beginning of the year. According to data recovery company Attingo, the hardware is to blame.
I’ve never had a problem with my WD drives, unlike Seagate. But, I’ve only used their HDDs, not SSDs (go Samsung Evo or go home). I have a few external drives that are nearly 20yo and still going strong (although I just use them as cache drives due to their age)
Between this problem and all the counterfeit SanDisk products on Amazon, sandisk has pretty much ruined their reputation.
But they saved a whopping $0.50 per drive!
Well they are owned by Western digital…
I’ve never had a problem with my WD drives, unlike Seagate. But, I’ve only used their HDDs, not SSDs (go Samsung Evo or go home). I have a few external drives that are nearly 20yo and still going strong (although I just use them as cache drives due to their age)