It has been a tough year at Western Digital Corporation's San Jose, California headquarters. The well-known storage company, which also operates the SanDisk brand, has been mired by one issue after another.
Adding to it, now people are losing their data, the cardinal sin of storage devices.
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The SanDisk Extreme Portable SSD is a high speed, portable solid state drive, designed for use by photographers and filmmakers. With a maximum data write speed of 1050 Megabytes per second, files can be transferred over the USB Type-C connection with blazing speed, letting you edit straight from the drive. dpreview.com »
2021-06-02 17:00
It's CES 2020. And that means that new tech is being announced. The photo industry isn't doing a whole lot. But everyone else is. Take today's latest perplexing announcement. The SanDisk Extreme Pro Portable SSD lineup has been popular and respected for years now. thephoblographer.com »
2021-01-12 02:00
In my time using the SanDisk Extreme Portable SSD, I've learned just how incredibly fast technology and transfer rates have become. Despite being satisfied with my 2015 MacBook Pro and iMac computers, their Thunderbolt ports were always more than adequate for me. thephoblographer.com »
2018-11-07 14:00
Высочайшая скорость работы и надежность в компактном корпусе. Почему SanDisk Extreme Portable заменил мне жесткий диск для выезда. Почему SSD? Внешние жесткие диски дают возможность хранить в среднем 1-2 Тб данных по весьма разумной цене. fototips.ru »
2018-11-06 09:00
Long gone are the days of measuring memory card capacities in megabytes, and perhaps gigabytes aren't long for this world either. Not long after Wise introduced the world's biggest and fastest CFexpress Type B cards, including a 4TB one, Western Digital debuted SanDisk 2TB and 4TB SD cards. [Read More]
SanDisk has denied that hardware issues are to blame for the recent widespread issues in its portable SSD lines.
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An Austria-based data recovery expert asserts that the issues that currently plague SanDisk portable SSD products are caused by "construction weakness," inclusive of the solder material used and improperly sized components. [Read More]
Major United States chipmaker Western Digital (WD) is finalizing plans to "spin off its semiconductor memory business" and merge with Japanese company Kioxia Holdings Corporation. [Read More]
A California customer has filed a class-action lawsuit against Western Digital, the parent company of SanDisk, alleging the company misrepresented the capabilities of its portable SSD products which have been widely reported to be failing en masse. [Read More]
Western Digital drives in a Synology NAS will apparently flash a warning to users to replace them after they sense they have been powered on for three years, even if nothing is actually wrong with the drives. [Read More]