SanDisk's Name is Now Mud

Smacks , 10 months ago

I’m almost certain this article is written by an AI

QuazarOmega , 10 months ago

Then comes around the summarizer bot

I used the AI to destroy the AI

chemicalwonka , 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago)

like the fake names of its clones on Aliexpress.

Sproux , 10 months ago

There’s no way this article wasn’t written by AI, the formatting is so weird.

Necronomicommunist , 10 months ago

Had an SSD of theirs fail and it took weeks to get a warranty replacement out and was the biggest hassle ever. If the customer service was tolerable I’d have considered renting, but even without this news I’d never buy or recommend them.

Sused , 10 months ago

Is this article written by AI?!

TwilightVulpine , 10 months ago

So what are good brands for SD cards and SSDs?

randombullet , 10 months ago

For SSDs? I usually use the big ass SSD Google sheets.

TwilightVulpine , 10 months ago

Google sheets?

fraydabson , 10 months ago

docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/…/edit

Tangent5280 , 10 months ago

Wait, what is this? Is this a list of all SSDs available in the market nowadays?

fraydabson , 10 months ago

I actually don’t know lol. I saw him mention a google sheet with a bunch of recommended SSDs and googled it and found that.

Tangent5280 , 10 months ago

Bruh LMAO with my luck its going to be some orgs blacklist of SSDs to never buy because of massive issues.

noUsernamesLef7 , 10 months ago

I was thinking of how to use Sheets as a storage device. Reminded me of this video.

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XTornado , 10 months ago

For SD complicated, I guess Samsung they seem good quality price.

Contend6248 , 10 months ago

For anything flash storage, Samsung is the GOAT

AMAMazing , 10 months ago

I feel like there’s a better way to title this article

user224 , 10 months ago

To be honest, I wouldn’t even open the post otherwise.

daddyjones , 10 months ago

It took my sleep deprived brain far too long (less than a second, but still) to realise this wasn’t a genuine name change.

randint , 10 months ago

Me too! I was thinking, “Why would any brand rebrand themselves to Mud? That is even worse than Twitter rebranding to X!”

mapro , 10 months ago

Same. The stupid capitalisation of nouns doesn’t help.

spongebue , 10 months ago

I grew up with title case being a thing ☹️

shotgun_crab , 10 months ago

Play the primus song

chili1553 , 10 months ago

Kingston is Winona’s Big Brown Beaver

swag_money , 10 months ago

Western digital is Jerry the racecar driver

sin_free_for_00_days , 10 months ago

🎶 But call me Aloysius Devadander Abercrombie

That’s long for Mud

TheMadnessKing , 10 months ago

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.

glimse , 10 months ago

I’ve been using their evos for awhile and they’re solid.

Dicska , 10 months ago

Well, every SSD is [S]olid.

glimse , 10 months ago

Goddamnit lol

antaymonkey , 10 months ago

Get out.

Kangie , 10 months ago

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] (wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Samsung_SSD_Firmware) on each machine to get their Firmware updated.

anticommon , 10 months ago

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.

vanontom , 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago)

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.

TheMadnessKing , 10 months ago

Thanks for the rec. Given, we are in similar situations, I think they should be great

Will add them to my comparison list.

ultratiem , 10 months ago

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): www.tomshardware.com/reviews/best-ssds,3891.html

TheMadnessKing , 10 months ago

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.

Psythik , 10 months ago

Literally? Are they pulling an Elon?

reason , 10 months ago

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>

HikuNoir , 10 months ago

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.

HollandJim , 10 months ago

Ah, so the answer is “yes” then.

Mamertine , 10 months ago

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.

Psythik , 10 months ago

I know, hence the “literally” (It was joke, see?)

FlyingSquid , 10 months ago

Someone really needs to have a talk with their marketing department.

Muddobbers , 10 months ago

No, MY name is Mud- oh, wait, yeah, carry on.

hactar42 , 10 months ago

But call me Aloysius Devadander Abercrombie

cowfodder , 10 months ago

That’s long for mud, so I’ve been told

Echo71Niner , 10 months ago

They were acquired by Western Digital in 2016, so why not point at WD?

ComfortablyGlum , 10 months ago

So what’s a better quality option?

Solarius , 10 months ago

seconding this

discodoubloon , 10 months ago

For memory Samsung all day. Micro/SD cards etc the big camera manufacturers source solid stuff if you aren’t a fan of Samsung.

If you’re talking about readers I don’t think anyone does anything particularly well. Anker might be my preferred brand though. Lots of companies rip them off.

Appoxo , 10 months ago

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 , 10 months ago

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

vanontom , 10 months ago

Is this referring to firmware?

Appoxo , 10 months ago

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

vanontom , 10 months ago

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 , 10 months ago

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 , 10 months ago

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 , 10 months 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.

altima_neo , 10 months ago

This explains the SanDisk sale on newegg