[HN Gopher] SanDisk Extreme SSDs keep abruptly failing-firmware ... ___________________________________________________________________ SanDisk Extreme SSDs keep abruptly failing-firmware fix for only some promised Author : cm_silva Score : 57 points Date : 2023-05-20 19:36 UTC (3 hours ago) (HTM) web link (arstechnica.com) (TXT) w3m dump (arstechnica.com) | tinglymintyfrsh wrote: | Realize the marketing and support (likely none) of retail parts | like these: manufacturers don't believe enterprise customers will | not scream at them if some or many of them fail. They can play | fast-and-loose to push the boundaries to get marketshare. Big | name vloggers and tech reporters may complain. | | OTOH, enterprise parts are built and supported towards | conservatism and reliability. | | There is crossover and a spectrum between the 2, but this case | isn't a complete surprise. | bb88 wrote: | I'm thinking maybe the Gamer's Nexus approach might work well | here, where they buy failed hardware to do an autopsy on it -- | and then publish the results of it on youtube as they recently | have done for the ASUS high end motherboards that cook the AMD | chips. | | It allows the the media companies access to the failed hardware | to do their own autopsy on it, and it saves the users from | needing to go through a painful RMA process, complicated by | companies not willing to admit fault. | mey wrote: | Side note, it wasn't just ASUS motherboards. Just ASUS had | their additional issues and poor response. | whitemary wrote: | The "high end" PC parts market comprises such a horrendous pit of | garbage. | | The only way to know if anything even works to begin with is to | read all (poorly written) manuals front to back taking notes, | then procure the rest of the parts and rigorously test them | yourself within all of their 30 day return windows. And even then | you're virtually guaranteed to miss some glaring issue. | | Just last week, an obscure forum post from someone who already | went through the tech support/RMA gamut saved me from wasting a | month + $5K on a build with a motherboard that doesn't support | sleep mode, which the manufacturer ASRock doesn't mention | anywhere. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2023-05-20 23:00 UTC)