• Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    1 year ago

    I was always suspicious of SanDisk to begin with. I’d had loads of bad USB thumbsticks from them in the past 15 years.

    This… just doesn’t seem that far fetched for them. They never seemed like a truly quality brand, but maybe that’s just me.

    But yeah, it pretty much solidifies my stance of skipping over SanDisk.

    Samsung is indeed preferable, overall. I quite like their speedy USB 3.0 slim thumbsticks.

    I’ll take Crucial for SSDs if I can’t get my hands on a Samsung, but SanDisk is right out. They’re somehow even worse than Kingston.

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      1 year ago

      Kind sad, they used to be the gold standard. I don’t think getting bought by Western digital did them any favors.

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        That seems to happen all too often. A company does well and gets purchased by another company. The new company drastically lowers quality while retaining high quality prices and rides a wave of profits during that period before consumers figure out the company now makes garbage.