Btw, since the thread is about both Samsung and SanDisk now, I can tell a personal experience with both regarding the same kind of issue.

I had the exact same problem with SanDisk as explained in The Verge article. I had it in January, before it became a known major issue, so I guess they were not prepared for that. However, the process was smooth enough, and I just filled a ticket with details, received a couple of questions, send it to their service center and received a new one later. It works fine now.

But I had a similar situation with Samsung SSD too, it died after a couple of months. But they made it impossible to replace it. The process is so bad that I was never able to get into any support for that case, and never received any meaningful response. So I just gave up eventually, so I guess I just donated few hundred dollars to Samsung.

Not sure. Samsung, WD, SK hynix 2TB drives are regularly on sale around ~$100

https://www.reddit.com/r/buildapcsales/search?sort=new&restr...

I also had a problem with Sandisk 2TB portable SSD. But it dies for a few days and comes back. It's wired. I will not keep anything important in that drive after this incident.

I had that Sandisk 3 years ago. Same thing happened to me. Lost a lot of data. Now, I banned anything by Sandisk and even evangelized anything but Sandisk - probably a couple 10mils of Sandisk revenue averted. I'm surprised, 3 years after, Sandisk SSD extreme STILL has same problem. Now probably easier to say "I told you so".

Sounds like someone is salty over not following 3-2-1 backups.

I see Samsung 2TB drives on sale for around $100 periodically, are they subject to the same problem?