HACKER Q&A
📣 nomilk

How can I tell if my SanDisk Extreme Pro is prone to failure?


All my personal photo albums are stored across 2 sandisk extreme pro devices, and these devices are prone to spontaneously fail (causing complete data loss): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38241583

That scares me (a lot).

My plan is to buy another brand of SSD and move the files across asap.

But, before I do that, is there a way to know (e.g. by looking up the specific model number or even production batch number) for sure if the two Sandisk SSDs I own are among the models/batches that are prone to spontaneous failure/data loss?

Sorry this is such a 'dumb' question - feels like it should be easily answerable on my own, but from a couple of hours searching/reading, then a reddit post (removed - off topic), and a stack exchange post (same fate and reason as reddit post), combined with the fact Sandisk denies there's even a problem and thus haven't issued a recall, it's very hard for me to answer this seemingly rudimentary question.

Thanks so much for any help/advice.


  👤 gurut Accepted Answer ✓
ngl had similar concerns ... if worst comes to it

Maybe invest in a RAID like storage / Go back to HDD, as data can be recovered professionally / Store in those military grade solutions ( LaCie ) / Write it to a bunch of DVDs

just my 2 cents


👤 JojoFatsani
S3 storage is dirt cheap, I highly recommend it.

👤 LinuxBender
Sorry this is such a 'dumb' question

Not a dumb question at all. Put the serial numbers into this [1] site.

[1] - https://support-en.wd.com/app/firmwareupdate