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  • Beware what SSDs you use

    From Jan Panteltje@3:770/3 to All on Fri Aug 18 06:55:54 2023
    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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  • From druck@3:770/3 to All on Fri Aug 18 21:20:44 2023
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  • From Theo@3:770/3 to druck on Fri Aug 18 23:17:24 2023
    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

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