Anyone else have a similar experience with one of these drives?

  • MonkderZweite@feddit.ch
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    1 year ago

    Randomly disconnects = chance for data loss

    Though the filesystem plays a role. I have a full metal body Sandisk USB stick that still overheats after a while and then disconnects (has a heatsink on top now) but ext4 handles that fine. I know that Fat32 has no journaling and NTFS is a tad bit sensible to disconnects. Don’t know about exfat.

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      1 year ago

      I use an Asus enclosure and put in a WD ssd. The heat dissipation is better than the sandisk model and it stays connected pretty much always except during travels

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          1 year ago

          Haven’t had that issue, but definitely design related. Mine is a Asus rog enclosure which has better heatsink than sandisk

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      It’s my biggest peeve with owning this SSD. I can leave it over a weekend and come back to, no lie, 50+ disconnect notifications from MacOS. Shoddy software to say the least…