Nobody cares about how customers abuse their boards. PCB industry has its own standards, called IPCxxxx. As long as the boards fit those standards, I can't see any blames to be put on WD's head. It is the users who subject excessive stresses on those boards.
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Ok I'll bite you just bought this SSD and want to use it to fill it up and move the data elsewhere. Where is the expensive stress?
the expensive stress is what people responsible for this are experiencing right now
Ah yes, the customers who put these in their computers and don't touch them again before they die are surely at fault.
Components literally popping off of the M2 PCB is absurd. A lot of the M2 sticks do flex a little-to-alot when installed under a heatsink but WD should've tested for this.
Worse yet, these external SSDs are aimed at professionals.
Ah, yes, us non-professionals suffering a data loss is no biggie. Imma revive my dead grandma and retake the pictures with her. Thanks Tom.
Memories reside in mind not in files.
Also, why don't you have redundancy for you allegedly precious files?
You write this and it doesn't cross your mind that this is the reason why it's worse for non professionals as there is a smaller chance of a backup being available ....
Debits and credits reside in the mind not in files.
And if you really think your financials are that big of a deal, there's always data recovery services.
Also, why don't you have redundancy for you allegedly precious files? Jesus christ, who taught you to business?
The fact you're losing your files is on you.
thats scary because i run windows 11 solely off of an extreme pro 4tb..