These SanDisk Extreme SSDs are prone to early abrupt sudden failures with total data loss. They've made the news several times throughout this year. There have even been several lawsuits.
Example news reports:
https://www.theverge.co
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2...st-wd-say/
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There are wide spread reports of early abrupt sudden failures of this particular sandisk extreme ssd and Western Digital has been completely silent on this issue that has become news over this year.
They've released a couple firmware updates, but there are still reports of drives failing.
Western Digital was even sued multiple times over this. It's just a flawed product period. And yet they keep selling it.
Example news reports:
https://www.theverge.co
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2...st-wd-say/
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A relative had some of these for some important files and data recovery is extremely slow and expensive.
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A relative had some of these for some important files and data recovery is extremely slow and expensive.
I have some BestBuy reward money so would rather buy it there. Looking for 1TB or maybe 2TB.
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I have some BestBuy reward money so would rather buy it there. Looking for 1TB or maybe 2TB.
For my relative, we went with one of the recent deals on Samsung T7 SSDs. Second link has Best Buy.
https://slickdeals.net/f/17075338-samsung-epp-2tb-t7-external-usb-portable-solid-state-drive-gray-89-99-free-shipping
https://slickdeals.net/f/17069737-2tb-samsung-t7-external-usb-3-2-gen-2-portable-solid-state-drive-gray-100-free-shipping
I would consider any individual drive used to backup important files at risk of failure. Even the best products have some failure rate. The Amazon reviews of Samsung still have some people who encounter failing drives. I helped my relative setup a NAS with RAID drives for redundancy. Portable drives are for travel and should be synced to more robust solutions later.
For my relative, we went with one of the recent deals on Samsung T7 SSDs. Second link has Best Buy.
https://slickdeals.net/f/17075338-samsung-epp-2tb-t7-external-usb-portable-solid-state-drive-gray-89-99-free-shipping
https://slickdeals.net/f/17069737-2tb-samsung-t7-external-usb-3-2-gen-2-portable-solid-state-drive-gray-100-free-shipping
I would consider any individual drive used to backup important files at risk of failure. Even the best products have some failure rate. The Amazon reviews of Samsung still have some people who encounter failing drives. I helped my relative setup a NAS with RAID drives for redundancy. Portable drives are for travel and should be synced to more robust solutions later.
https://www.bestbuy.com/site/cruc...Id=65511
I guess I'll have to look into a NAS with RAID and other options for redundancy. I'm decent with computers but I've never done much with external storage so this is all new to me