I was just about to buy a 2TB one of these to use with my M1 Macbook… sounds like that’s not a good idea, even on sale, right?
What would you guys recommend instead, if I am looking for a 2 - 4TB external drive that’s relatively portable and that’s not going to be in the super expensive category? Should I look into an NVMe drive and an external enclosure that supports thunderbolt? Open to any suggestions out there to try and take advantage of some of the holiday deals.
I have a external from 15 years ago that won’t boot up anymore. Just one day I plugged it in and it wouldn’t run or ran and shut off. It literally sat on a shelf for years as storage and failed. I lost everything I had from the past 20 years.
Yeah, Samsung’s are superior in every way.
Funny, my sandisks micro SD cards all died within 6 months, I said never again to SanDisk, they’re like the acer of the storage world
Lots of photographers on YT recommend this SSD.
It’s the newer extreme pro models with faster transfer rates, not the older ones. Older ones are rock solid, have a dozen of them at work and things are amazing.
I had one of these Sandisk SSD’s and the usb c jack got a little wonky over time. I contacted support and they completely replaced it and paid for shipping. Super fast and made me a fan of their support. Sucks to read so many people have had issues lately, I thought they were one of the few companies left that actually honored their work and their warranties. Maybe I just got lucky?
So I guess, Samsung all day then.
Tossed about $5k worth of these drives and picked up Samsung t7 shields instead. It was a tough pill to swallow but I’m in production and I can’t take that sort of risk.
My SanDisk microSD card just failed recently after a couple of months of use. It was the only one that broke. Don’t buy their crap.
These are trash
Dang would you look at that. Never really like SanDisk and switched away from them years ago. Had an SD card fail on me, switched to Samsung cards, haven’t had a problem since.
RIP to all the Sandisk micro sd cards I have in my drones 💀
Likely not affected, by this issue at least.
That being said… SD cards are notoriously faillable and do not like to high read/write cycles. If you’re keeping data there long term, you shouldn’t be. It’s why most professional cameras come with two sd cards in case one fails.
I’ve got a 1TB Sandisk SSD, had a software issue where the file system got corrupted. I’ve documented the fix here: https://old.reddit.com/r/datarecovery/comments/13i8lt8/sandisk_extreme_pro_ssd_just_disappeared_my/jr1smcx/. Haven’t had any other / hardware issues so far (and hopefully won’t).