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[–] ComfortablyGlum@sh.itjust.works 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

So what's a better quality option?

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

[–] Telodzrum@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Samsung consumer SSD have a well-earned black mark on their reputation as of late.

[–] vanontom@geddit.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is this referring to firmware?

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 year ago

Most likely the 990 issue and I believe the 980 as well.

[–] vanontom@geddit.social 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] vanontom@geddit.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] Solarius@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 year ago

seconding this