Western Digital in court over problems with SanDisk – Western Digital portable SSDs

Western Digital released a firmware update last May with the goal of preventing drives from “disconnecting unexpectedly from the computer.” However, an updated firmware update apparently failed to fix the problem, which led Western Digital to He is now heading to the courtrooms For SanDisk storage drives, which not only have disconnection issues but also random crashes. The court case is expected to soon reach class action proportions as the plaintiff alleges that the failed volumes case affects tens, if not hundreds of thousands of people in the United States.

models mentioned in complaint These include the SanDisk Extreme Pro, Extreme Portable, Extreme Pro Portable, and WD My Passport SSD. Not only did another firmware update released by WD in July solve the problems, but some claim it exacerbated the situation with data missing or becoming inaccessible to drive owners.

In some cases, external storage drives become read-only and therefore inaccessible by the operating system, which also basically amounts to data loss for the user. Of course, as the process develops, we will know a lot soon.