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1. Robert McNees (mcnees@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 19-Aug-2023 17:17:20 UTC Robert McNees

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   @shepgo Thank you! I may pick one up!

   • Robert McNees (mcnees@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 19-Aug-2023 16:38:19 UTC Robert McNees

     I bought Western Digital’s SanDisk 2TB Extreme Portable SSD earlier this year – not the Pro model they’ve acknowledged has problems – and it randomly disconnects *all the time*. If it’s mounted more than ~15 minutes the warnings start popping up.

     No data loss yet, but sounds like it’s coming sooner than expected. Does all the stuff mentioned in the article. Not feeling great about this!

     https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/08/sandisk-extreme-ssds-are-worthless-multiple-lawsuits-against-wd-say/

   • Infoseepage (infoseepage@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 19-Aug-2023 16:42:55 UTC Infoseepage

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     @mcnees A lot of WD enclosures have problems in my experience.

     My most common problem I've experienced with my client base is they'll buy a WD USB hard drive and then do something to mangle the connector on the interface board. I've seen everything from frying it to just broken solder pads. No strain relief.

   • Alan Bucknam (bucknam@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 19-Aug-2023 17:43:52 UTC Alan Bucknam

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     @mcnees thinking I am going to send Western Digital an invoice for the replacement drives I will have to buy

   • LumiWorx (lumiworx@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 19-Aug-2023 18:18:58 UTC LumiWorx

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     @mcnees ... As a participant in the last WD class action from Red NAS drive issues, I doubt any consumer grade customers will get reimbursed for anything other than a low-numbered nuisance fee for cash settlements. You might get offered an alternate product as a replacement, but that remains a question.

     WD bought SanDisk in 2015, around the same time they acquired HGST (Hitachi). No name changes were made, and no absorption of products to tip off buyers.

     https://www.tomshardware.com/news/wd-red-smr-lawsuit-pays-out-pennies-in-settlement-damages

   • Robert McNees (mcnees@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 20-Aug-2023 18:13:41 UTC Robert McNees

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     • Deirdre Saoirse Moen

     @deirdresm Great drives, but that price! Yikes!

   • Deirdre Saoirse Moen (deirdresm@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 20-Aug-2023 18:13:42 UTC Deirdre Saoirse Moen

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     @mcnees @shepgo When I needed an external, I bought what a friend (who’d worked at an Apple Store) told me was common for employees to buy for themselves: LaCie Rugged drives.

     https://www.lacie.com/products/rugged/

     I’ve owned 6. Never had one fail, only replaced for more storage.

   • Robert McNees (mcnees@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 20-Aug-2023 18:14:56 UTC Robert McNees

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     • Deirdre Saoirse Moen

     @deirdresm To be fair, I still have a 1 TB LaCie external (not rugged) from 2009 that is still humming along.