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Heads up, there were some past models of this drive that had extemely high failure rates, unsure if they fixed the real issue, but I think SanDisk was blaming firmware. While they stopped short of recalling products, they did have acknowledge that there was a higher than normal failure rate. Last I heard there is a class action going on... not sure what the status of it is. I own 2 500GB models which were supposedly not affected, but both failed within the warranty period. I was quickly able to contact support easily, and they provided me with the RMA and shipping labels.
I sent them in and waited nearly 3 months before replacement drives were shipped to me, support said they didn't have inventory which is funny because they are in stock everywhere.
Needless to say since I experienced a 100% failure rate with my Sandisk/WD external SSDs so the replacements are sitting in their packaging and I am just using my custom SSDs in the Sabrent enclosures, and my Samsung T5s that are much older and have much more data without any issues. I'm usually a big fan of Sandisk/WD as I use Sandisk flash in all my DSLRs and vehicle dash cams, plus countless WD Reds in my multiple NASes, and WD Blacks in my desktops, along with quite a few SN850 and SN770s internal SSDs deployed in multiple systems, but I definitely DO NOT trust their external SSDs currently.
I have owned both a sandisk and a samsung portable SSD. For some reason the sandisk drive often requires time to "wake up", like a few secs, where the file explorer will hang. Never happen to samsung drive. I will never buy another sandisk drive myself.
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Sandisk is atrocious at customer service and likely quality control.
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I'm starting to regret the sandisk extreme I bought at Costco. Haven't really used it a lot and had it stored in a drawer then decided to pull it out for Time Machine backups on a Mac. Drive is dead after about 2 months. Think I've had it past the 5 year warranty so highly doubt that I can get a replacement. For the short period of time of real use, seems like an unreliable product.
I'm starting to regret the sandisk extreme I bought at Costco. Haven't really used it a lot and had it stored in a drawer then decided to pull it out for Time Machine backups on a Mac. Drive is dead after about 2 months. Think I've had it past the 5 year warranty so highly doubt that I can get a replacement. For the short period of time of real use, seems like an unreliable product.
Happened to two my 1.5 tb microsd cards and a 2tb SSD all within months. Took me a ages to get replacements for each. Weeks of emailing to get them to actually process the replacement
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Thumb Up: Yes, because I want more storage deals.
Seems like a good value but not sure about performance.
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I sent them in and waited nearly 3 months before replacement drives were shipped to me, support said they didn't have inventory which is funny because they are in stock everywhere.
Needless to say since I experienced a 100% failure rate with my Sandisk/WD external SSDs so the replacements are sitting in their packaging and I am just using my custom SSDs in the Sabrent enclosures, and my Samsung T5s that are much older and have much more data without any issues. I'm usually a big fan of Sandisk/WD as I use Sandisk flash in all my DSLRs and vehicle dash cams, plus countless WD Reds in my multiple NASes, and WD Blacks in my desktops, along with quite a few SN850 and SN770s internal SSDs deployed in multiple systems, but I definitely DO NOT trust their external SSDs currently.
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