Poor response to widespread failure reports has resulted in a tarnished reputation.
  • Pons_Aelius@kbin.social
    96·
    1 year ago

    Just an FYI on Sandisk.

    They were acquired by Western Digital in 2016.

    So this bullshit falls as much at WD’s feet as it does their wholly owned subsidiary, Sandisk.

  • Pons_Aelius@kbin.social
    872·
    1 year ago

    50% percent off a product that is almost guaranteed to lead to complete data loss?

    By Grabthar’s Hammer, what a savings!

  • Bell@lemmy.worldEnglish
    76·
    1 year ago

    Let’s be clear that a failing part is one thing but silently dumping them on the public is the unforgivable failure. I hope shareholders are seeing this and selling.

    • Pons_Aelius@kbin.social
      30·
      1 year ago

      I hope shareholders are seeing this and selling.

      Sandisk has been a wholly owned subsidiary of Western Digital since 2016.

      WD’s share price is up ~25% this year…

          • chaorace@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
            2·
            1 year ago

            “401k” is an American term of art. It’s like a pension fund except you’re directly investing into the stock market and not pooling risk with anyone else. Money contributed to a 401k isn’t taxed until you retire, but in exchange you can only contribute direct earnings from the job sponsoring your account.

            As part of a benefits package, some employers also offer contribution “matching”. It’s very similar to the concept of employers matching charitable donations – for every personal dollar you put in, they chip in as well. How much they contribute will also vary. Some places will do dollar-for-dollar matching up to a maximum salary percentage (e.g.: If I earn $50k and get 5% matching, the employer will match the first $2500 I contribute). Other comapnies will instead contribute pennies on the dollar at a fixed percentage rate (e.g.: If I save the annual maximum of $22,500 and get 5% matching, the employer will contribute $1,125). And yes – it’s never a pleasant surprise when you’re expecting the good matching and instead get the shity matching.

            In any case, because 401k matching is technically only a job benefit, there aren’t many rules against employers reneging on it. It’s one of the first corners that tend to get cut in workplaces where the boss doesn’t have to look his underlings in the eye on a regular basis.

          • WarmSoda@lemm.eeEnglish
            1·
            1 year ago

            It’s a way for companies to act like they’re helping you retire instead of providing a pension.

    • loutr@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Yep, and shame on clickbaity tech “news” websites for churning out “awesome deals on SanDisk SSDs!” articles with no mention of the failures.

    • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      91·
      1 year ago

      So far I only bought Samsung SSDs
      for internal use and expanded that to Crucial as well.

      Only heard good things about Sabrent, Kioxia and Samsung so far and not much bad.

      • vanontom@geddit.socialEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        I’ve bought exclusively WD storage for many years. Mostly because I’ve never had a failure, and hadn’t read anything terrible about reliability. Well, all that changed this year.

        My newest portable drive (Passport Ultra USB-C 2TB) has only 30 hours (40 power cycles) on it, and is clicking/chirping and abnormally slow while writing anything. Probably dying, at least it warned me. It will need to be replaced, at my cost (just out if warranty of course). Combined with SanDisk failures, and complete silence from WD… I’m done with them.

        I’m moving to Samsung. I’ve already bought a replacement (T7 Shield SSD 2TB), and also an M2 NVME (980 Pro with Heatsink) for PC OS refresh later. Hoping to move almost all the things to Samsung SSDs in coming years, outside of 1-2 large Seagate HDDs for NAS.

        Bye WD. I do not tolerate reliability issues when it comes to data storage. Or silence from companies when there are massive public failures. Or buying out and destroying the competition.

      • discodoubloon@kbin.social
        71·
        1 year ago

        For memory Samsung all day. Micro/SD cards etc the big camera manufacturers source solid stuff if you aren’t a fan of Samsung.

        If you’re talking about readers I don’t think anyone does anything particularly well. Anker might be my preferred brand though. Lots of companies rip them off.

    • reason@lemm.eeEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      For those unfamiliar, the phrase “one’s name is mud” means that a person, or in this case a brand, is widely unpopular due to disgrace or scandal>

  • TheMadnessKing@lemdro.idEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    How are Samsung’s SSD?

    I am looking to buy one external drive of 2 TB for Backup of my multi-media collection and 1 M.2 SSD for my laptop upgrades.

    If someone can even specify the model that’s known to be good would really be helpful.

    • Kangie@lemmy.srcfiles.zipEnglish
      0·
      1 year ago

      I’ve soured on them a bit recently. The 980 Pro firmware bugs hit me on a bunch of machines.

      Samsung refuse to use the Linux Vendor Firmware Service that enables fwupd to apply firmware updates (even though Dell resold Samsung products receive updates here. Thanks Dell!).

      The official Samsung firmware updater image is/was (for years) broken on modern AMD platforms (guess what I was running all of those 10NVMes in?)

      Finally, I had to do [this bloody hack] (https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Samsung_SSD_Firmware) on each machine to get their Firmware updated.

      • anticommon@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        My 980 2tb died due to the firmware and Samsung just refused to reply to any of my warranty requests.

        So I refused to buy their drives, and have since spent about 1k on 16TB of WD drives.