{"id":13427,"date":"2023-08-13T19:38:31","date_gmt":"2023-08-14T00:38:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/?p=13427"},"modified":"2023-08-13T19:38:31","modified_gmt":"2023-08-14T00:38:31","slug":"sandisk-ssds-are-failing-and-becoming-big-paperweights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/sandisk-ssds-are-failing-and-becoming-big-paperweights\/","title":{"rendered":"SanDisk SSDs are failing and becoming big paperweights"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Photographers and videographers enjoy the speed and storage capacity of SanDisk&#8217;s solid state drives (SSDs). Unfortunately, these disks have a growing history of total failure, where the data on them gets wiped out. And by the way, some of those failed disks are replacements issued by SanDisk&#8217;s current owner Western Digital \u2013 for other disks that also failed. Yeeps! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Verge <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/22291828\/sandisk-extreme-pro-portable-my-passport-failure-continued\">advises<\/a>: &#8220;If you\u2019re thinking of buying a SanDisk Extreme Pro, Extreme Portable, Extreme Pro Portable, or WD MyPassport SSD,\u00a0<em>maybe just don\u2019t<\/em>.&#8221; The news portal is following up to find out why WD is still selling the faulty disks. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>ArsTechnica <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2023\/05\/sandisk-extreme-ssds-keep-abruptly-failing-firmware-fix-for-only-some-promised\/\">shares extensive coverage<\/a> on the failure and spontaneous data deletion of both 2TB and 4TB disks, and provides a list of fora and Reddit threads where this issue is being discussed and lamented. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photographers and videographers enjoy the speed and storage capacity of SanDisk&#8217;s solid state drives (SSDs). Unfortunately, these disks have a growing history of total failure, where the data on them gets wiped out. And by the way, some of those failed disks are replacements issued by SanDisk&#8217;s current owner Western Digital \u2013 for other disks &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/sandisk-ssds-are-failing-and-becoming-big-paperweights\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;SanDisk SSDs are failing and becoming big paperweights&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":13428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1,4],"tags":[2919,2918],"class_list":["post-13427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all","category-digital-life","tag-drive-failure","tag-sandisk-ssds"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13427"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13429,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13427\/revisions\/13429"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}