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2023-08-18

Due in large part to its abysmal response — or rather, complete lack thereof — to widespread reports of the failure of its portable SSD products, the SanDisk brand name is now mud.

Months after the first reports started coming in and nearly a week after widespread reporting by The Verge, Ars Technica, and PetaPixel, SanDisk — and its parent company Western Digital — appears to have chosen to bury its head in the sand and hope it all blows over.

Well, almost. SanDisk and Western Digital actually did choose to respond, in a way, by slashing the price of affected SSDs by as much half in the past week (B&H Photo lists the 4TB version drive as regularly priced at $800, now available for $400, which is a 50% discount). That price drop is coming directly from the manufacturer, who lists the same price on its online store.

SanDisk at least appears to be attempting to offload as many of these drives as it can — the same drives that are failing. Of course the price cuts could be totally unrelated to the failure reports, but the optics aren’t great, and optics are what matter here.

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baludesi

2023-08-18

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Mud is not an offense to semi conductor companies as the electronic components are built from sand (silicon).

If you want to offend it, call it SanD1ck.

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baludesi

2023-08-18

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Mud is not an offense to semi conductor companies as the electronic components are built from sand (silicon).

If you want to offend it, call it SanD1ck.

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Jarvis.-.

2023-08-18

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one issue is caused by a bug in the firmware version R332G190 that was released in July 2023. This bug affects some SanDisk Extreme and SanDisk Extreme PRO SSDs with capacities of 500GB, 1TB, and 2TB. The bug can cause the drive to enter a read-only mode, which means that the user cannot write any new data to the drive or delete any existing data. The bug can also cause the drive to become undetected by the computer or show an incorrect capacity

guess they r doing what microsoft is doing for years remember when w11 slowed ssd somehow, also this is kind of same thing 980 pro faced, this companies need to test their firmware properly

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SsAnD_Sha-RiS3r

2023-08-18

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Jarvis.-. wrote:
one issue is caused by a bug in the firmware version R332G190 that was released in July 2023. This bug affects some SanDisk Extreme and SanDisk Extreme PRO SSDs with capacities of 500GB, 1TB, and 2TB. The bug can cause the drive to enter a read-only mode, which means that the user cannot write any new data to the drive or delete any existing data. The bug can also cause the drive to become undetected by the computer or show an incorrect capacity

guess they r doing what microsoft is doing for years remember when w11 slowed ssd somehow, also this is kind of same thing 980 pro faced, this companies need to test their firmware properly

Right ... Microsoft SSD performance bug just got resolved in Aug 2023 patches .. for windows 11

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kukdookoo

2023-08-18

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Jarvis.-. wrote:
one issue is caused by a bug in the firmware version R332G190 that was released in July 2023. This bug affects some SanDisk Extreme and SanDisk Extreme PRO SSDs with capacities of 500GB, 1TB, and 2TB. The bug can cause the drive to enter a read-only mode, which means that the user cannot write any new data to the drive or delete any existing data. The bug can also cause the drive to become undetected by the computer or show an incorrect capacity

guess they r doing what microsoft is doing for years remember when w11 slowed ssd somehow, also this is kind of same thing 980 pro faced, this companies need to test their firmware properly

w11 slowed ssd somehow
please explain more. is it impacting all ssd's and how to resolve it?

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Jarvis.-.

2023-08-18

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kukdookoo wrote:
w11 slowed ssd somehow
please explain more. is it impacting all ssd's and how to resolve it?

its started effecting nvme ssds mainly from march 2023 update and latest update i.e. aug 2023 has the fix for it, hope it'll solve it, read more here

https://www.windowslatest.com/2023/08/14/window...

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some1anywhere

2023-08-19

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Sandisk flash drives and microSD cards are ok but for serious storage medium like SSD, choose only good brands like Samsung, SK Hynix, Crucial and also TLC flash or better, preferably with DRAM. Avoid QLC. Avoid trashy SSD brands like Western Digital and Sandisk.

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dcb_lover

2023-08-21

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There was some speculation that due to covid supply chain issues, all the products manufactured during that time might not be of the same quality or reliability etc. The issues in the field might be showing up now.