Western Digital Faces Legal Scrutiny Over Persistent Malfunctions in SanDisk Portable SSDs

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Not bying western digital anymore, bought two external drive (not even SSD) from them over the years, and both ended up by failing. Those drives were never moved, sitting on a desk always connected to a desktop PC, and both ended up failing out of nowhere. No western digital from me, my latest external storage was a samsung external SSD, and i'm really happe with it.
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XenthorX:

Not bying western digital anymore, bought two external drive (not even SSD) from them over the years, and both ended up by failing.
Externals are constantly head parking unless you set them otherwise.
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I recently purchased a 64gb sandisk thumb drive and it broke on first usage... not even kidding, brand new out of the box. The brand is just not what it used to be.
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That is the product you get for paying your workers $8.59 per day to make the drives.
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I bought one of those pieces of garbage and I can confirm that it randoms disconnect, huge drops in speed during transfers (I am talking about 2 big files - starts at 140 MB/s and drops to 4....), disconnect, reconnect, drive not recognized, disconnect again, etc No more.... I throw it in the garage and after a while It started to transfer by itself...a lot of dust! https://i.imgur.com/h1go0zZ.jpg
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I was about to buy on of those, but changed my mind, going samsung T7.
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I guess it depends, I've got SanDisk micro cards in my IR/UV camera a year old without a problem yet and I've got a SanDisk 256GB 3.0 thumb drive and not a problem yet. I have to agree with the WD's though, my buddy lost WD externals like crazy he went through 3 of them before he got the hint. Oh forgot I've got a San 256 in my & wife's phone too.
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SplashDown:

I guess it depends, I've got SanDisk micro cards in my IR/UV camera a year old without a problem yet and I've got a SanDisk 256GB 3.0 thumb drive and not a problem yet. I have to agree with the WD's though, my buddy lost WD externals like crazy he went through 3 of them before he got the hint. Oh forgot I've got a San 256 in my & wife's phone too.
we are talking abou those ssd's, not sd cards or usb.
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is western digitial turn to be shunned? instead of seagate? or both to be shunned now?
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tsunami231:

is western digitial turn to be shunned? instead of seagate? or both to be shunned now?
Look more closely at the topic.
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Mufflore:

Look more closely at the topic.
I did, my comment stands Seagate got castrated by people here with there failing drives. now Western Digital is have the same similar issue .Acording the article WD own SanDisk so there name will get draged threw mud too Maxtor had issue that haunted Seagate too after they got bought out too
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tsunami231:

I did, my comment stands Seagate got castrated by people here with there failing drives. now Western Digital is have the same similar issue .Acording the article WD own SanDisk so there name will get draged threw mud too Maxtor had issue that haunted Seagate too after they got bought out too
It says "SanDisk Portable SSDs". Can you show us where you saw All WD Drives mentioned?
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Mufflore:

It says "SanDisk Portable SSDs". Can you show us where you saw All WD Drives mentioned?
the title litterly says Western Digital Faces Legal Scrutiny Over Persistent Malfunctions in SanDisk Portable SSDs or is read a lost form you and others ? Sandisk owned by WD which in turn means WD name going along for ride, Just like Seagates name went along for ride when then maxtor was owned by them had issues
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LocoDiceGR:

we are talking abou those ssd's, not sd cards or usb.
Commenting on KissShOt really, but ya thread not about that ... lol whatever ,,,later
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tsunami231:

the title litterly says Western Digital Faces Legal Scrutiny Over Persistent Malfunctions in SanDisk Portable SSDs or is read a lost form you and others ? Sandisk owned by WD which in turn means WD name going along for ride, Just like Seagates name went along for ride when then maxtor was owned by them had issues
I must need jailing because I'm a descendant of a King who was jailed. Paranoia isnt helpful to forum threads.
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SplashDown:

Commenting on KissShOt really, but ya thread not about that ... lol whatever ,,,later
https://i.imgur.com/wfLCRZb.gif Here I was thinking I was talking about a brand after having many products from said brand die shortly after purchase the past couple years, a usb thumb drive just happened to be the most recent product that failed, then commenting that the brand just isn't what it used to be. Funnily enough the reason I went with Corsair when purchasing new hard drives a few months ago...