“Most of its SSDs use WD branding rather than SanDisk branding, but it’s still SanDisk at its core. As part of this move, SanDisk will effectively revert to its pre-acquisition state, which means that WD’s current lineup of SSDs should still exist with SanDisk branding, while WD will continue selling spinning hard drives only.”
Sound’s like they’re trying to protect the WD brand from SanDisk’s recent reliability issues.
I imagine they’ll continue to drive SanDisk’s brand into the ground chasing profits and then fully transition back to the WD brand to clean the slate as HDD sales drop towards the end of the decade when the cost per GB of SSD’s overtake them.
Fun story, had a steam deck chew through two of my 512gb micro SD cards from San Disk, requested an RMA for both after lots of trial and error. Multiple emails in broken English later they cede that it’s strange that both of them failed since they’re brand new, and I’m finally able to send them the cards for an RMA.
And I never saw them again.
I tried reaching out multiple times over the course of many months to get the whereabouts of my replacements, and nothing.
4 months later I get an email asking me to rate my replacement and the service I received…
About $80 down the drain. I’ve sworn off SanDisk unless it’s near-literal dirt cheap, and even then nothing important ever goes on a SanDisk.
They never did make SSDs.
“Most of its SSDs use WD branding rather than SanDisk branding, but it’s still SanDisk at its core. As part of this move, SanDisk will effectively revert to its pre-acquisition state, which means that WD’s current lineup of SSDs should still exist with SanDisk branding, while WD will continue selling spinning hard drives only.”
What about the WD SN850X?
I was gonna say, “Aren’t WD SSDs just white label versions of other manufacturers?”. Turns out, yes.
Sound’s like they’re trying to protect the WD brand from SanDisk’s recent reliability issues.
I imagine they’ll continue to drive SanDisk’s brand into the ground chasing profits and then fully transition back to the WD brand to clean the slate as HDD sales drop towards the end of the decade when the cost per GB of SSD’s overtake them.
Fun story, had a steam deck chew through two of my 512gb micro SD cards from San Disk, requested an RMA for both after lots of trial and error. Multiple emails in broken English later they cede that it’s strange that both of them failed since they’re brand new, and I’m finally able to send them the cards for an RMA.
And I never saw them again.
I tried reaching out multiple times over the course of many months to get the whereabouts of my replacements, and nothing.
4 months later I get an email asking me to rate my replacement and the service I received…
About $80 down the drain. I’ve sworn off SanDisk unless it’s near-literal dirt cheap, and even then nothing important ever goes on a SanDisk.
I still have one good SanDisk USB 3.0 flashdrive. A really, really old one, but with great speeds as well.
All my more recent SanDisk flashdrives failed - and all for the same reason. ECC detected error and locked the unit…