Since the beginning of this year, a lot of consumers who bought SanDisk Extreme mobile hard disk in the e-commerce platform, social platform feedback, there are suddenly erased data, can not read and other strange problems.
WD acknowledged the above issue, saying that the problem appeared on a batch of hard drives mass-produced at the end of 2022, mainly affecting the 4TB model, and has recently released a firmware update to address the reliability issue of its SanDisk Extreme and Extreme Pro SSDs.
The Verge, PetaPixel and other foreign technology media reported that Western Digital sent a firmware update to the 2TB and 4TB models of SanDisk Extreme V2 and Extreme Pro V2, instead of curbing the problem, more models are affected.
Reports claim that SanDisk Pro-G40 SSDs are also experiencing data loss issues after a firmware update, causing DaVinci Resolve to crash repeatedly.
Reddit user Filmmaking_David reported that due to this issue, dealers have started to sell these SanDisk portable hard drives with the attitude of clearing out inventory, and according to foreign tech media Tech News Space, even up to 30% discount.
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