It’s the newer extreme pro models with faster transfer rates, not the older ones. Older ones are rock solid, have a dozen of them at work and things are amazing.
I knew there was something wrong with these when they all went on sale for half price about 6 months ago. Almost got one too. I never keep data on one drive anyway, but still.
Funny, my sandisks micro SD cards all died within 6 months, I said never again to SanDisk, they’re like the acer of the storage world
Reputation in data storage is hard to make and easy to destroy. SanDisk not only made a defective product, but has since shown that they are not standing behind their products. I have bought SanDisk in the past, but their reputation is now destroyed for me.
I work in data storage, but not for a hardware manufacturer nor for any of the involved parties.
Man i just bought the one in the photo from Costco last week bc it was on sale.
yup
they used to be top tier in flash storage in the early days
have a sandisk right now that i still use daily
would be looking for other options next time
and WD owns them
I was about to by an external hard drive that looked just like that…. Which one do y’all recommend then?
There are no “good” drive manufacturers. All of them eventually put out a bad model or series and you won’t have any warning until they start going bad en masse.
Make backups.
Anything Samsung
It took me seven months and hours of work to get those clowns to honor their warranty for a failed drive. There were dead links everywhere, broken email addresses, support lines where the calls dropped routinely. Not only did their product suck but they have the most dysfunctional warranty process I’ve ever seen. I eventually had to file a complaint with my state attorney general to get them to honor the warranty. I’m never buying SanDisk again.
PayPal and Subway have nonexistent customer service. PayPal’s phone will drop the call when selecting to making a claim. Subway seems to move everything to an automated system, so I got my bank to charge back after giving me someone else’s less expensive order.
It is the AI revolution at work.
Sure would be nice if our totally-not-corrupt government would crack down on companies offering warranties that they never honor. Maybe if we complain about it constantly for the next 20 years, they’ll give us a nice speech about it and pass a symbolic bill voicing their displeasure.
Sigh. Sandisk used to have best CF card years ago.
Meanwhile SanDisk SD cards always had an absolutely terrible reputation for high failure rates and terrible performance on anything involving random writes. I remember back in the PalmOS days that Palm officially recommended not using cards from SanDisk.
I’m glad I didn’t see this post until two months after buying a SanDisk…
Seagate has been no better within the last year. Maybe it’s just with their NAS hard drives. Bottom line is that these drives are failing and it takes 2-3 months if your lucky to get a recertified HD back. Wait, it gets better! Only to find out that the recertified drives fail straight out of the box.
I had 2 Seagate NAS drives fail within a month of getting them brand new. I got these in the beginning of July. I RMA’d both drives and it took at least 8 weeks to get RMA & ship them. Another 8 weeks to get them back. Only to have both fail right out of the box.
Only last week was I able to send them out for RMA. At this rate I will be lucky if I get the drives back in January. Will they work? Who the hell knows.
HGST drives are the only drive I will ever use for storage.
Backblaze reports have validated my stance.
There are only 2 kinds of storage… Those that have failed and those that will.
I had a new 1tb 7200rpm drive from 2016?ish that started having errors after 2 months of use. It still passes SMART and hasnt had any data loss, but it is firmly in the “do not store anything important on” category.
My Sandisk drive failed prematurely recently and I’d love to know where you started so I can save myself as much of a headache as possible.
RIP to all the Sandisk micro sd cards I have in my drones 💀
Likely not affected, by this issue at least.
That being said… SD cards are notoriously faillable and do not like to high read/write cycles. If you’re keeping data there long term, you shouldn’t be. It’s why most professional cameras come with two sd cards in case one fails.
Damn, I was just about to buy a few of these for christmas.
Definitely skipping now.
I just ordered two of these for work. I looked up the competition for what to get and these have glowing reviews, as do other options that all seem identical. And everything is ultimately from one or two parent companies.
What’s the alternative??
TIL is SanDisk and not ScanDisk. It’s been 20 years, or so.
Honestly even their micros cards for phones had issues. I used them in my phones exclusively but they’d fail after a few years. Started swapping to Samsung cards, and still have them all working (had to upgrade one recently).
Oh come on…that’s the one I have…
That sucks. Happy cake day tho.
“Nah dude, it’s like, uh… something else.”
-SanDisk
I always though SanDisk was one of the top tier companies, well that was wrong.
Skimmed the article but I have 2 of those exact model in the pic and had then about 2 years now no issues. Weird.