SanDisk Extreme SSDs keep abruptly failing—firmware fix for only some promised | Ars Technica
"Multiple DITs/Loaders/ACs on both coasts have experienced the exact same failure with these drives over the last month.The symptom seems to be that after a sustained write they will completely lose their filesystem and it's a total crap shoot [whether] you can recover it or not. The primary way you will see this is that the drive will unmount and you will not be able to get it to mount again, despite showing up in Disk Utility. You can sometimes recover it using DiskDrill's filesystem rebuild, but occasionally that does nothing. It persists with any filesystem type."
I was really close to getting a couple 4TB for the summer, they have been 40% off from several vendors at a couple points this year. I had assumed it was a collapse in demand and clearing out inventory..perhaps not.
Anyone here experiencing this? I have used mostly Samsung T5/T7s successfully & reliably for a few years for in-field backup & remote editing and only read online reviews of these Sandisk Pro drives
"Multiple DITs/Loaders/ACs on both coasts have experienced the exact same failure with these drives over the last month.The symptom seems to be that after a sustained write they will completely lose their filesystem and it's a total crap shoot [whether] you can recover it or not. The primary way you will see this is that the drive will unmount and you will not be able to get it to mount again, despite showing up in Disk Utility. You can sometimes recover it using DiskDrill's filesystem rebuild, but occasionally that does nothing. It persists with any filesystem type."
I was really close to getting a couple 4TB for the summer, they have been 40% off from several vendors at a couple points this year. I had assumed it was a collapse in demand and clearing out inventory..perhaps not.
Anyone here experiencing this? I have used mostly Samsung T5/T7s successfully & reliably for a few years for in-field backup & remote editing and only read online reviews of these Sandisk Pro drives
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