Storage not Storing

I mentioned briefly the issues fir Western Digital / SanDisk portable SSD drives losing all recorded data briefly in the July 2023 post. Fast forward a month now and we have lawsuits against the company saying Western Digital "engaged in a scheme to mislead consumers".

It is impossible for consumers (or even professionals) to test / fully evaluate products for their true capability of delivering on the claims. But drives are meant to store data. This is fundamental. Of course they have their MTBF ratings and ultimately will fail over time due to mechanical or electronic wear, but this is not the case here. The SanDisk drives can lose all data at once even if carefully treated and rarely used.

Typically most of us expect the companies value their brands the most, as a brand value is most tedious to build and may take a brief moment to collapse. Western Digital somehow does not understand that. Or they don't care, which is also a plausible theory, as they have already been known for a number of predatory actions damaging their brand. Like age-shaming their HDDs. 

I must say it is over for me. I will never buy a Western Digital or SanDisk product. I have had a couple including NAS server drives, portable SSDs, and SD cards. Bugs do happen but if a company is deliberately acting against their customers or ignores the problems with their products for financial profits, I don't want to be part of that scheme. Fortunately there are alternatives.