Seems like a pretty decent deal…
2TB Model Link (in ad)
4TB Model Link
I suspect delivery is included, prime or no prime, as it's over $49. Happy to be corrected. :)
I should note THIS article for any prospective buyers for consideration.
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Could very well explain why it might be discounted.
THIS is the article for full transparency to other members on this deal page.
I suspect you'd be able to fill the SSD as a test to ensure you're not impacted? Otherwise, could easily return to Amazon for a refund.
So I've filled one up to only a few gb fres several times without data corruption (I'd know as the things I'm doing checksum everything and would fail. Does this mean my drive should be good?
Yeah the mixed reviews put me off purchasing this. I ended up picking up Samsung T7 2TB shield for $236 from Officeworks instead.
It wasn't the best price, but for the sake of $100 I'd prefer not to lose a couple of year's of work (also have time machine back-ups)
1000% you can't put a price on your data!
I wonder if anything has changed since it's been 9-12 months since that article was posted.
Yeah they are a good price, but I too am concerned about the corruption issues mentioned in the other thread.
I thought these things had rather mixed reviews
Damn. Brought the 2TB at full price a few weeks ago, and another 2 days ago…
Refund them?
Wouldn't touch them, There currently being sued due to the design of the circuit board leading to mass faults, overheating that much the solder becomes liquid and falls away from the board.
Holy guacamole! Links?
Interesting, I wouldn't call a charge paper as evidence. It claimed expert says components are too large for the board, I think the court will need more than what was said by expert. I'm not electronics engineer, but for this claim to be effective, I believe one must produce a binding standard (maybe ASTM or something else) and compare what was on the board to the standard. Have to wait and see how the case plays out in court.
Just to say upfront that I'm not defending Sandisk, but would try to be reasonable in claims.
First, for solder to melt away, temperature expected to be north of 230C, which is bloody hot! Hard to believe such claim? Alternatively, solder cracks due to thermal cycling is more believable but if this is the case, it will likely consistently fail when temperature rise, unfortunately I don't see people complaining this way.
Second, complaints that I have read were that the disk failed after more than half of space filled, most of the time the drive failed to be recognised or suddenly becomes a blank disk, sounded more like controller not handling data flow and/or address correctly and causing corruption? Could be controller hardware issue? If the same controller already used on other products and not seeing similar behaviour, then more likely a firmware issue?
Edit: Also, if the (data recovery) experts' claim was true (ie. solder crack, loss connection), a PCA reflow should reconnect all solder joint and should be able to recover data within, did they mention they did a reflow and able to resurrect failed disk?
LG G4 has the infamous soldering issue causing bootloops. For this, multiple people, including reviewers reporting this issue is not a good sign.
Also, it mentioned cracks and heat pad being too small. As for the firmware "fix", we don't know what it is, it could be a workaround (i.e. have the thermal throttle kick in at a lower temperature). I have multiple el cheapo products from AliE where the connecting material broke off the soldering point just with a little bit of force.
Majority of USB 3.2 gen 2 external drives use "cost effective" components (except T7 Shield (note: T7 is not the same as T7 Shield)). USB 3.2 gen 2 is limited to PCIe gen 3 x2 so most SSD makers won't put in a proper gen 3 x4 SSD in there (so you end up with a cheap controller with cheap NAND combo).
Understood, it is a risky purchase.
I have a similar but different experience with a SATA-USB adapter. It works okay when first plug into computer, but after doing much read/write, the drive suddenly eject from OS and copy failed. Unplug-plug the adapter and the drive show up again but files moved into the drive when it fail wasn't usable. If I continue to copy, it will fail again. Switch to another SATA-USB adapter, the disk again showing up fine, and I can do all the read/write all day long without any problem, able to confirm it was the SATA-USB problem.
Hopefully your failed SSD was due to the NVME-USB adapter? Could try to salvage the NVME and see if it works on a different case?
Edit: Sorry, I remember wrong, just tested again the bad SATA-USB adapter after unplug-plug, the disk became empty… and when I move the disk to another good SATA-USB adapter, it show up fine and all files still within.
@[Deactivated]: SATA to USB adapter… let me guess: a "cost-effective" one? Lately I found:
My failed SSDs, they are NVMe ones or SATA ones (I did use one with USB to SATA cable, but I tested the SSD using SATA3 and the SSD is broken). 80% of them are all models where people reported issues (can't help it, I tend to buy new models of SSDs way too early).
@netsurfer: Sorry to hear about your lost SSD.
Mine was $40 Simplecom USB docking station (bad unit) and $15 Simplecom SATA-USB enclosure (good), both from the same brand, one bad the other good.
@[Deactivated]: From the info OZBer viper8548 provided, it is generally the file management IC chip that causes the issue for these Sandisk Extreme USB SSDs and the HDD Recovery Services person can see some of the soldering connections to the chip broke. He thinks the chip is likely not broken but the solder joints lose connections.
Yeah you going to spend your money and risk your data with it though?
Didn't think so.
I wouldn't mind making it Time Machine drive, used to have a Patriot 2Tb SSD, failed in the first 2 months. Cheap but didn't last, returned and get my money back.
Nonetheless would highly recommend test the drive first by filling it up multiple times in the first month or so, making sure it has no problem filling up.
Great price, however I've had pretty bad experiences with these.
I lost all my data with this one. Luckily I didn't solely rely on it for backups.
Bought a Samsung T7 Shield and have never looked back.
https://support-en.wd.com/app/firmwareupdate
Anyone who buys one should immediately check if a firmware update is required.
As good as the price is, I wouldn’t touch them.
Looks like Samsung T7 is way more stable than this…
Thanks OP, got the extreme pro 4TB from officeworks for $301.41 using their 5% price beat guarnatee
Nice one! :)
Lucky I checked all the comments here, almost jumping in to grep one, with all these issues on this thing, keep searching again …
Because you can't, those thumb drives will have fake capacity shown.
edit: didn't neg you btw
I'm OK with the downvotes… I'm genuine when I say I don't really claim to know much about these things. I did buy one of those thumb drives though - how would I know if the capacity is fake?
Windows seems to recognise it as 2TB…
https://imgur.com/a/tJwNVp2
The drive firmware can fake the capacity. Try putting 2TB of stuff on it and see how that goes, ideally files you don't mind losing.
Also the one you linked for $2 is just the Type-C adapter.
You can tell it's fake from the ludicrous TB/$ while being sold from a not-so-reputable place (e.g. random eBay/AliExpress store)
Tear the usb apart and you'll probably find a SD card inside. Data gets written to the SD card, and once it's full it just overwrites previous data or slows to a crawl/stops working entirely
I'm shooting you down with a downvote as requested, not because you don't know anything (I can only infer), but because the product you've linked is not a fair comparison.
Very impressive at $0.00098 per GB, ATL I believe lol
new 10tb nas build for under 10 bucks. lit
Was going to buy the 4TB Extreme Pro but … reading the reviews stopped me from doing it. There is a large % of users reporting losing everything on the drive and it seems not isolated. WOW… so be CAREFUL!
The price is unreal, but the risk feels far greater.
But will this case fit my iPhone?
Get a super big magnet.
Thanks for all the comments. Was about to pull the trigger.
don’t buy this model it is known to fail and currently have multiple class action lawsuits.
Not sure if they have fixed it but i would avoid this model if you care about your data, I have personally experienced this
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/08/sandisk-extreme-ssds…
Surely they have fixed it? If they have a class action lawsuit on their hands then it would be stupid to continue selling the same faulty product.
There are multiple Australian customers reported issues with this SSD, with multiple comments reporting complete data loss dated 2024.
Well, even if you want to give Sandisk / WD benefit of doubt, they "think" the firmware update fixed it (assuming damage not yet done to the SSD). However, could it be a firmware workaround (i.e. let the thermal throttle kicks in early, at a lower temperature).
The device i have failed within a year, even though I still have warranty my data is worth more, I’ve sent it to a data recovery center which costs $500 to just get it looked at and they said they couldn’t do anything
I’m contemplating sending it to this guy in the states
https://youtu.be/Lj_JozUx9GU?si=Sjy1GDGU30igE9dp
He provides a lot of insight in the issues with this particular model, according to him 20% of the drives he repairs is this model
Another annoying thing is, based on the model number on the listing (SDSSDE61), it is not the latest model.
Anyone else have issues with Amazon Germany taking forever to ship or not shipping at all?
yeh, on a motherboard a few months ago. in stock, never shipped. then out of stock
yep, electric toothbrush took a couple of months to arrive, very odd
Thanks for the replies.
Thought it was only me with the shipping issues.
so it being OOS very quickly is going to mean alot of people are going to lose their data soon.
I have the Samsung Shield T7 4TB. It’s expensive but reliable.
I also just purchased the LEXAR NM790 2280 NVME 4TB SSD. This SSD although comes in heatsink or non-heatsink variant has tremendous performance for value and at 4TB (~3.76TB usable storage) is rated to 3500 TBW (one of the best for longevity in rewrites etc.).
For those that need or want a 4TB drive especially to incorporate into their laptops or PC, I highly recommend Lexar NM790. You can buy SSD enclosures these days that offers near cooling performance to the dedicated external SSDs like this deal.
There's been some good deals on the T7 in the past. I got my T7 4TB a year ago on Amazon for $400.
Unclear whether linux distributions have been updated to deal with NM790 4TB detection issue. As much as I like NM790 (at last year's great price), I do wish Lexar provides a firmware upgrade to fix the linux mess.
Wow, never knew about that.
Hope they sort out a fix or patch for this as was considering getting one of these to test out linux ISOs from distro watch!
Thought it was a good deal until i saw the other post saying this ssd has problems