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Curse English idioms, I literally thought they were rebranding to Mud.
I mean, after X it looks downright sensible.
It’s a more down to earth name at least.
sigh
It’s because of the capitalization. If the title was “SanDisk’s name is now mud” this wouldn’t happen.
I was also very, very confused at first.
I guess I was thinking that if Gwyneth Paltrow could found a company called Goop that anything goes these days.
I’m pretty sure that was the author’s intention.
Probably very deliberate, in the wake of Twitter’s disastrous rebranding.
find fringe idiom
capitalise all words
and… send
There. Easy clickbait.
Wouldn’t be the weirdest rebrand recently, honestly
Good thing it explains it in the second line of the article.
Me too
Wait…. They’re not doing that? What?
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.
I completely lost trust in Western Digital after they lied about their NAS drives. Cost me a lot of money that stunt.
They are still operated pretty separately internally.
These drives were sold under both brands, the response has been the same for both.
50% percent off a product that is almost guaranteed to lead to complete data loss?
By Grabthar’s Hammer, what a savings!
50% percent off a product that is almost guaranteed to lead to complete data loss?
Get them for people you hate. 😏
I came back to comment. I’m still chuckling at your Galaxy Quest quote
I just wish text could convey the soul crushing ennui Rickman displayed when he delivered the line.
ennui
Next step is to fold in the cheese
For the delivery alone, I think it’s my favorite line in the whole movie.
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.
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…
They’re saving a ton by not matching our 401ks anymore
Sorry, I don’t know the term. What is a 401k?
It’s a way for companies to act like they’re helping you retire instead of providing a pension.
Can’t tell if sarcasm. It’s a retirement plan that employers will match up until a certain point, In lieu of the pension plans previous generations were offered.
No, I was being genuine. We have compulsory superannuation here in Aus. Employers pay in an amount equal to 11% of your wages, it goes up to 12% in 2025. It applies to every wage earner, full-time, part-time, contract and casuals.
Wow, that’s great. We only get like 3-4% on average, and that requires us to put in 6-8%
But WDC is down almost 10% in the last 10 days
Good point. I was looking from when this problem was first discovered vs when this news hit as you did.
Yep, and shame on clickbaity tech “news” websites for churning out “awesome deals on SanDisk SSDs!” articles with no mention of the failures.
It took my sleep deprived brain far too long (less than a second, but still) to realise this wasn’t a genuine name change.
Me too! I was thinking, “Why would any brand rebrand themselves to Mud? That is even worse than Twitter rebranding to X!”
Same. The stupid capitalisation of nouns doesn’t help.
I grew up with title case being a thing ☹️
I feel like there’s a better way to title this article
To be honest, I wouldn’t even open the post otherwise.
I’m almost certain this article is written by an AI
Then comes around the summarizer bot
I used the AI to destroy the AI
Is this article written by AI?!
There’s no way this article wasn’t written by AI, the formatting is so weird.
No, MY name is Mud- oh, wait, yeah, carry on.
But call me Aloysius Devadander Abercrombie
That’s long for mud, so I’ve been told
Play the primus song
Kingston is Winona’s Big Brown Beaver
Western digital is Jerry the racecar driver
🎶 But call me Aloysius Devadander Abercrombie
That’s long for Mud
Literally? Are they pulling an Elon?
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>
I think if pulling an Elon means something like committing a massive fraud then yer. P.S. I using pulling an Elon from now on.
No, no, pulling an Elon is buying a functioning company for over the market price then doing everything you can to drive it into the ground.
I know, hence the “literally” (It was joke, see?)
Ah, so the answer is “yes” then.
Someone really needs to have a talk with their marketing department.
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.
I’ve been using their evos for awhile and they’re solid.
Well, every SSD is [S]olid.
Goddamnit lol
Get out.
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.
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.
We’re doing opposites here, ha. (And I’ve basically just happened to buy exactly what TheMadnessKing above is looking for, weird.)
Bought a 980 Pro for main PC OS (due to reviews of reliability and long warranty, did not see info about firmware problems). Along with T7 Shield 2TB for movie backups. And stopped buying WD after many years (due to my recent Passport failure and public SanDisk failures). Wish us both luck, may we backup all the things thrice.
Thanks for the rec. Given, we are in similar situations, I think they should be great
Will add them to my comparison list.
Yeah Sammy still makes some of the best drives in the industry. However, the company is pretty scummy. So keep that in mind if customer support is important to you. Also bear in mind, they offer no warranty service from Canada, you will be sent to the US centre and from there, it’s all uphill as they will cite region conflicts, etc. RMA will be hit and miss.
Basically manufacturers now are cutting DRAM from their offerings which means most drives can’t handle large files as that I’ll overflow their paltry buffers and your speeds will plummet to that of a USB drive. WD SN770, Crucial P3, Kingston NV2, all omit DRAM. In fact, most of the cheaper offerings cut the feature on their drives.
As a general rule, I look at DRAM first, then cell type (try to avoid QLC over TLC), controller type can be important if you have specific needs (I purchased a m.2 to CDEF adapter for my Xbox and it only supports drives with a specific controller), and then warranty and product support.
In all honesty, this is not a bad list to get you started (not sure I’d put the 990 first, but it’s not crazy either): https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/best-ssds,3891.html
Thanks for the info and the details.
I had watched a video some years ago of LTT about DRAM-less SSD and had been actively avoiding them since then. Will surely keep these details in mind.
They were acquired by Western Digital in 2016, so why not point at WD?
So what’s a better quality option?
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.
Samsung consumer SSD have a well-earned black mark on their reputation as of late.
Is this referring to firmware?
Most likely the 990 issue and I believe the 980 as well.
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.
My SanDisk 512GB 3D had a similar behaviour issue.
Read was okayish but writing was exorbitant slow for a SSD at 10MB/s sequential.
Backup Asap.Interesting. I’ve only had one brand of SS/flash drive actually fail (ADATA UE700, and replacement). But most of mine seem to heat up very quickly, then soon throttle the speeds (probably to mitigate further heat or death). The T7 will be my first portable SSD for larger backups, and I hope it handles heat much better.
I am/was using mostly WD Passport HDDs for backups, which I disconnect and put in a safe. Shocked that this newest one has only 30 hours usage, very gentle handling (same as others), yet it’s apparently failing. (So tired of worrying about tiny fragile spinning disks and mechanisms!) Will backup, and try deleting some files, hoping maybe it just hates being nearly full (about 70-80%). SMART data says it’s healthy, but maybe would until it’s too late.
My sandisk ssd also said it’s “healthy”. If it shows abnormal behavior for now reason it’s getting faulty. Expected heat (like a good data transfer) is not abnormal but my problem happened with every data transfer.
Both CrystalDisk and the Sandisk tool said it was healthy. Took me 2 or 3h to fully transfer about 250gb from my ssd to my new one.
seconding this
