Buyer beware: some SanDisk Extreme SSDs are wiping people’s data

Posted by asdfiwerio on Tuesday May 23, 2023 @07:30AM
from the theverge.com dept.

https://www.theverge.com/2023/5/22/23733267/sandisk-extreme-pro-failure-ssd-firmware

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Re:Buyer beware: some SanDisk Extreme SSDs are wiping people... by asdfiwerio on Tuesday May 23, 2023 @07:30AM (#36042809)

Western Digital has now tacitly admitted that its SanDisk Extreme Pro portable solid-state drives were critically broken after all — by issuing a firmware update that’ll hopefully keep the 4TB model from wiping your data all by itself. (Seriously.)

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