Beware buying SanDisk and WD portable SSDs
Several SanDisk and Western Digital portable SSDs have continued to delete data and fail at an alarming rate, Ars TechnicaAt the time of publication, the impacted drives were sold by several prominent retailers in South Africa — including Takealot, Makro, iStore, HiFi Corp, and FirstShop.on the issue after spotting Reddit and SanDisk forum threads with numerous complaints from customers who had lost their data.
In certain cases, the drives completely failed and were rendered useless. At that point in time, the reports had been streaming in for at least four months. Things seem to have worsened since, despite parent company Western Digital rolling out a firmware update which it claimed resolved the issue. Ars Technica criticised the company for its meagre response to the issue, in which it failed to answer most of the questions the publication sent and excluded certain models affected by the problem from its list of impacted units.
“We addressed this firmware issue in the manufacturing process, and we can confirm that the issue is not impacting currently shipping products,” Western Digital stated.SanDisk Extreme Pro Portable 4TB Western Digital My Passport 4TB The issue has impacted and frustrated journalists at several other tech publications — including
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