Call me cynical but seeing these being sold off used at knock down prices I felt the need to delve a little deeper.
Long story short it appears that a couple of years ago a huge number of
these drives based around WD Black NVMes were falling on their arses with amazing regularity and with Sandisk responding with little more than a
Gallic shrug. F/w updates were offered as a 'fix' but it's not clear if
these actually resolved the problem at the root.
Viewed with an engineering head these IP65 sealed shockproof enclosed
devices seem like the perfect pressure cooker for heat sensitive devices
and with leakage of nasty cheap AA batt like discharges from the enclosure being reported it sounds like inadequate thermal management and the f/w
update is an applesque throttling bandaid to shore up a poor product
design.
Rhetoric aside does anyone know the truth behind this story and if a firm solution was ever offered by Sandisk?
Inconclusive analysis from ARS Technica (05/23):
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/05/sandisk-extreme-ssds-keep-abruptly- failing-firmware-fix-for-only-some-promised/
and a huge disgruntled user thread on Reddit (2022 onwards):
https://www.reddit.com/r/editors/comments/10syawa/a_warning_about_sandisk_e xtreme_pro_ssds
links will likely need rebuilt.
Thanks for any input.
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