[Discuss] SanDisk Extreme SSDs keep abruptly failing—firmware fix for only some promised | Ars Technica

[richard.pieri at gmail.com (Rich Pieri)]

On Sat, 20 May 2023 08:44:14 -0400
Ted Vahey <ted at allsystems.com> wrote:

> My son just had a failure on his 4TB.
> 
> ?
> 
> Any suggestions on recovery tools?

Restore from backup.

Unfortunately, when SSDs fail, they tend to fail abruptly and
catastrophically. When this happens? You got yourself a fancy silicon
brick. Maybe a firmware update -- if SanDisk ever provide one -- can
restore functionality.

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