Bringing computer industry news, hardware and software reviews, guest interviews and news of User Group meetings for over 35 years, the Personal Computer Show is a three-time winner of the prestigious national Computer Press Awards. Our host is Hank Kee.
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NEWS ITEM
August 23, 2023: SanDisk Extreme SSDs keep abruptly failing. Which SSDs are affected? According to the Western Digital firmware update page, the impacted products are the models as follows:
SanDisk Extreme Portable 4TB (SDSSDE61-4T00)
SanDisk Extreme Pro Portable 4TB (SDSSDE81-4T00)
SanDisk Extreme Pro 2TB (SDSSDE81-2T00)
SanDisk Extreme Pro 1TB (SDSSDE81-1T00)
WD My Passport 4TB (WDBAGF0040BGY)
Reports from affected users say the issue appears to be limited to drives manufactured after November 2022, although there is no official confirmation of that. The drives appear to hit a problem once they are around half full, at which point they will start throwing up read and write errors. The drive then shows up as unformatted, and reformatting doesn't fix the issue.
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