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On Thursday, two extra lawsuits had been filed in opposition to Western Digital over its SanDisk Excessive collection and My Passport transportable SSDs. That brings the variety of class-action complaints filed in opposition to Western Digital to 3 in two days.
In Could, Ars Technica reported about buyer complaints that claimed SanDisk Excessive SSDs had been abruptly wiping information and changing into unmountable. Ars senior editor Lee Hutchinson additionally skilled this downside with two Excessive SSDs. Western Digital, which owns SanDisk, launched a firmware replace in late Could, saying that at present transport merchandise weren’t impacted. However the firm did not point out buyer complaints of misplaced information, solely that drives might “unexpectedly disconnect from a pc.”
Additional, final week The Verge claimed a alternative drive it acquired after the firmware replace nonetheless wiped its information and have become unreadable, and there are some complaints on Reddit pointing to current issues with Excessive drives.
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