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Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2023 06:55:55 GMT
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by: Jan Panteltje - Fri, 18 Aug 2023 06:55 UTC

Western Digital, SanDisk Extreme SSDs don’t store data safely, lawsuit says
The suit is seeking class-action certification.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/08/lawsuit-takes-western-digital-to-task-over-sandisk-ssds-allegedly-erasing-data/

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by: druck - Fri, 18 Aug 2023 20:20 UTC

On 18/08/2023 07:55, Jan Panteltje wrote:
> Western Digital, SanDisk Extreme SSDs don’t store data safely, lawsuit says
> The suit is seeking class-action certification.
> https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/08/lawsuit-takes-western-digital-to-task-over-sandisk-ssds-allegedly-erasing-data/
More here
https://www.theregister.com/2023/08/17/western_digital_sandisk_ssd_lawsuit/
I was looking at some of those models for one of my Raspberry Pi's but
luckily I went with a Samsung T7 USB SSD.
---druck

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by: Theo - Fri, 18 Aug 2023 22:17 UTC

druck <news@druck.org.uk> wrote:
> On 18/08/2023 07:55, Jan Panteltje wrote:
> > Western Digital, SanDisk Extreme SSDs don’t store data safely, lawsuit says
> > The suit is seeking class-action certification.
> > https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/08/lawsuit-takes-western-digital-to-task-over-sandisk-ssds-allegedly-erasing-data/
>
> More here
> https://www.theregister.com/2023/08/17/western_digital_sandisk_ssd_lawsuit/
>
> I was looking at some of those models for one of my Raspberry Pi's but
> luckily I went with a Samsung T7 USB SSD.

Samsung are not without their problems:
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/02/samsung-releases-firmware-fix-for-rapid-failure-issue-in-new-990-pro-ssds/

- supposedly the rapid wear is permanent, the firmware fix just prevents it
getting any worse.

(these are NVMe not USB SSDs though)

Theo

Subject	Author
Beware what SSDs you use	Jan Panteltje
Re: Beware what SSDs you use	druck
Re: Beware what SSDs you use	Theo