• Pons_Aelius
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    62 years ago

    Just an FYI on Sandisk.

    They were acquired by Western Digital in 2016.

    So this bullshit falls as much at WD’s feet as it does their wholly owned subsidiary, Sandisk.

  • Erika2rsis
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    52 years ago

    Curse English idioms, I literally thought they were rebranding to Mud.

  • Pons_Aelius
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    42 years ago

    50% percent off a product that is almost guaranteed to lead to complete data loss?

    By Grabthar’s Hammer, what a savings!

    • reflex
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      12 years ago

      50% percent off a product that is almost guaranteed to lead to complete data loss?

      Get them for people you hate. 😏

    • @reason@lemm.ee
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      12 years ago

      For those unfamiliar, the phrase “one’s name is mud” means that a person, or in this case a brand, is widely unpopular due to disgrace or scandal>

    • @Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      02 years ago

      So far I only bought Samsung SSDs
      for internal use and expanded that to Crucial as well.

      Only heard good things about Sabrent, Kioxia and Samsung so far and not much bad.

      • vanontom
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        2 years ago

        I’ve bought exclusively WD storage for many years. Mostly because I’ve never had a failure, and hadn’t read anything terrible about reliability. Well, all that changed this year.

        My newest portable drive (Passport Ultra USB-C 2TB) has only 30 hours (40 power cycles) on it, and is clicking/chirping and abnormally slow while writing anything. Probably dying, at least it warned me. It will need to be replaced, at my cost (just out if warranty of course). Combined with SanDisk failures, and complete silence from WD… I’m done with them.

        I’m moving to Samsung. I’ve already bought a replacement (T7 Shield SSD 2TB), and also an M2 NVME (980 Pro with Heatsink) for PC OS refresh later. Hoping to move almost all the things to Samsung SSDs in coming years, outside of 1-2 large Seagate HDDs for NAS.

        Bye WD. I do not tolerate reliability issues when it comes to data storage. Or silence from companies when there are massive public failures. Or buying out and destroying the competition.

  • @TheMadnessKing@lemdro.id
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    02 years ago

    How are Samsung’s SSD?

    I am looking to buy one external drive of 2 TB for Backup of my multi-media collection and 1 M.2 SSD for my laptop upgrades.

    If someone can even specify the model that’s known to be good would really be helpful.

    • @Kangie@lemmy.srcfiles.zip
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      02 years ago

      I’ve soured on them a bit recently. The 980 Pro firmware bugs hit me on a bunch of machines.

      Samsung refuse to use the Linux Vendor Firmware Service that enables fwupd to apply firmware updates (even though Dell resold Samsung products receive updates here. Thanks Dell!).

      The official Samsung firmware updater image is/was (for years) broken on modern AMD platforms (guess what I was running all of those 10NVMes in?)

      Finally, I had to do [this bloody hack] (https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Samsung_SSD_Firmware) on each machine to get their Firmware updated.

      • @anticommon@sh.itjust.works
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        12 years ago

        My 980 2tb died due to the firmware and Samsung just refused to reply to any of my warranty requests.

        So I refused to buy their drives, and have since spent about 1k on 16TB of WD drives.