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[–] [email protected] 106 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (20 children)

Of course they do, because even if they know based on their internal testing that its a hardware issue, they are going to fight tooth and nail against a recall or doing anything to help the consumers affected. They will never publicly admit wrongdoing. It will likely take a class action lawsuit where they will settle without admitting wrongdoing and each person affected gets a buck fiddy for their troubles. (They will settle because going to court and dealing with discovery means they would be caught knowing this was a problem and hiding it anyway.)

Why? Because capitalists gonna capitalist. They want none of the risk associated with profit and all the profit associated with risk. They want to have their cake and eat it, too.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 9 months ago (5 children)

They permanently lost my business based on all of the reports of problems with their drives. I recently bought Samsung SSDs.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Aren't almost all (if not all) the storage manufacturers guilty of futzing up their production at some point? In the different threads concerning this issue with SanDisk, I'm pretty sure I've read of people recounting issues with many of the different manufacturers.

Doesn't help that there seem to be fewer real options thanks to consolidation over the years.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 9 months ago

Yes they all do, samsung literally had a problem earlier this year

It's about how companies handle issues really and Sandisk has not handled it well.

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