Hexus Review Gone?

[Kanoe]

I could just be me and if someone can post a link to it that would help cause I think I'm going mad!

I could swear in the last week or so there was a review published of a SanDisk external SSD drive. I read it, commented on it and was going to have a look at it again today but can't find.

Any searches for it don't seem to reveal anything for it. If i look in my profile for items I have commented on it's not int he list either.

Did I imagine it?

[DR]

It will be back soon. Had a few headaches

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

It will be back soon. Had a few headaches

It didn't die did it,like a whole spate of their 480GB and 960GB ones??

Me and two mates bought the 480GB Ultra II and within 18 months,two of us had dead drives,and it seems looking on Newegg and one or two other sites people have had a whole lot of problems with them. People can go from working drives to a dead one just with a single boot.

OTH,that Kingston I won in the forum competition is still working after 5 years.

Edit!!

The 240GB ones seem fine though.

[Kanoe]

Phew! Really thought I had lost it. Stress + Lack of sleep means I'm getting to the stage where I can't trust my own memory!

I notice the previous comments on it haven't returned with it though.

[DR]

It didn't die did it,like a whole spate of their 480GB and 960GB ones??

Me and two mates bought the 480GB Ultra II and within 18 months,two of us had dead drives,and it seems looking on Newegg and one or two other sites people have had a whole lot of problems with them. People can go from working drives to a dead one just with a single boot.

OTH,that Kingston I won in the forum competition is still working after 5 years.

Edit!!

The 240GB ones seem fine though.

I have one here which I have used for 18 months or so - no issues

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

I have one here which I have used for 18 months or so - no issues

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...82E16820173012

You can see the main issue here,people reporting the drives just randomly dying - there seems to be some batches of the drives which just die very quickly with no warning.

The 240GB one seems better, and I don't think Sandisk is going to be getting my money again anytime soon since there is an issue here,and they are very quiet about it.

It makes me rather dubious since the drives actually had a massively(but temporary) price drop when I bought mine,so it does make me wonder,and looking back at some of the comments regarding dying drives it does seem drives between late 2015 and early 2016 have a greater probability of issues(from a quick scan of the comments).

The only one of my mates who still has their one working does not tend to shut down their PC very often - it seems during boot the failures seem to happen,and I tend to switch off my PC at night(don't have it in hibernate) and both are systems are different generation Intel ones.

Edit!!

I think mine went around 18 months actually.

That old Kingston still is working - it nearly has had 15TB written to it so far.

[DR]

Different product chap? http://hexus.net/tech/reviews/storag...eme-500-500gb/

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

Different product chap? http://hexus.net/tech/reviews/storag...eme-500-500gb/

That's the thing the drive you reviewed could also be another ticking time bomb,so it might look fine for a year to 18 months and then die a death. If you start looking at a few other places you see a similar pattern,the competing half TB drives from companies like Crucial and Samsung seem to have less talk of the drives dying suddenly like the Sandisk 480gb ones.

As a result, I also have no trust in their products,since its not only people getting failures but people also are getting replacements which fail too,and not a tingle from them it appears.

But since this is essentially an SSD re-purposed as a storage device,I think its even worse,since you can't just have a storage device one day decide it won't work.

The issue is if I do get an RMA replacement for this drive,there is no guarantee it won't do the same in another 12 to 18 months,and I will be left out of pocket.

In that sense I think Crucial and Samsung are far better in that regard(even when there have been issues as they were open about them and fixing them).

Edit!!

That is the other problem here amongst my group of mates(and their mates),me and Bagnaj97 tend to be the go to people who they ask for hardware advice and we both have our Sandisk 480GB SSDs die suddenly,so its unlikely Sandisk SSDs will be recommended by either of us for a while until we are sure that the newer drives are up to scratch.

We can't suggest builds for other people for parts to suddenly die,as it will be a pain in the posterior having to deal with the fallout.