As SSD prices continue to decline, manufacturers continue to reduce the number of hardware accessories included with products. Desktop adapter brackets, screws, SATA data and power cables and other ...

In a nutshell: Following a barrage of complaints from customers about failing SanDisk Extreme and Extreme Pro Portable SSDs, Western Digital has pledged to release a firmware update to resolve the ...

Sandisk entered the SATA III SSD market with great fanfare. The company is a pioneer in the flash market and even co-owns a NAND flash factory with Toshiba. We've looked at the Extreme SSD 240GB on a ...

In a nutshell: Earlier this year, Western Digital announced a firmware update to resolve problems that some users were experiencing with SanDisk Extreme Portable, Extreme Pro Portable, and My Passport ...

Western Digital says it will release a firmware update to address a reliability issue with its SanDisk Extreme and Extreme Pro SSDs. Over the past few months, Reddit, the SanDisk forums and Twitter ...

the sudden loss of data on SanDisk SSDs that has been reported since around May 2023, data recovery company Attingo points out that the problem is not a problem with the firmware, but the design and ...

[Editor’s Note, August 17, 2023: As recently reported in Ars Technica, a critical mass of users on SanDisk’s forums and Reddit have reported failures of some SanDisk Extreme, Extreme Pro, Extreme V2, ...

Former CNET editor Dong Ngo has been involved with technology since 2000, starting with testing gadgets and writing code for CNET Labs' benchmarks. He managed CNET's San Francisco Labs, reviews 3D ...

Since 2004, I have worked on PCMag’s hardware team, covering at various times printers, scanners, projectors, storage, and monitors. I currently focus my testing efforts on 3D printers, pro and ...