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I was foolish enough to buy SanDisk.

SanDisk flashdrives get extremely hot and die in months.

The warranty process is time consuming and tedious.

I stick to Samsung flashdrives now.

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Can't say i have the same experiences. The only products to fail me where really really cheap AliExpress devices.

Sandisk in general I’ve had good luck with - but there are a ton of fakes out there.

That said, I see no way this drive could dissipate any useful amount of heat at all, so suspicious it would be a problem under sustained write loads.

Especially since most use cases likely would never have sustained write loads.

The way to tell if it's genuine Sandisk is if you can't get the damn thing out of the package without cussing!

I agree - I eventually (not just for this case) got some EMT shears, and oh boy. So much less blood hah.

Yep, my SanDisk SSD died, was one that had the bad firmware but supposedly a fixed revision. They did RMA it but took about a month. Only using that now for Ventoy, can't really trust it for anything else. Also annoying is they wanted a serial number that they silk-screened on in tiny letters matte black on black.

Quick edit: Wasn't a fake either, was bought direct.

I prefer the SK Hynix Beetle (X31) and Tube (T31) to Samsung flash drives, because internally the are DRAM SSDs, I hope they come out with new models.

SanDisks are very frequently fake, even in brick and mortar stores. Could it be you had a fake one?

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