• Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      10 months ago

      I was always suspicious of SanDisk to begin with. I’d had loads of bad USB thumbsticks from them in the past 15 years.

      This… just doesn’t seem that far fetched for them. They never seemed like a truly quality brand, but maybe that’s just me.

      But yeah, it pretty much solidifies my stance of skipping over SanDisk.

      Samsung is indeed preferable, overall. I quite like their speedy USB 3.0 slim thumbsticks.

      I’ll take Crucial for SSDs if I can’t get my hands on a Samsung, but SanDisk is right out. They’re somehow even worse than Kingston.

    • ALostInquirer@lemm.ee
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      10 months ago

      Aren’t almost all (if not all) the storage manufacturers guilty of futzing up their production at some point? In the different threads concerning this issue with SanDisk, I’m pretty sure I’ve read of people recounting issues with many of the different manufacturers.

      Doesn’t help that there seem to be fewer real options thanks to consolidation over the years.