A California customer has filed a class-action lawsuit against Western Digital, the parent company of SanDisk, alleging the company misrepresented the capabilities of its portable SSD products which have been widely reported to be failing en masse.
Due in large part to its abysmal response -- or rather, complete lack thereof -- to widespread reports of the failure of its portable SSD products, the SanDisk brand name is now mud.
It has been a tough year at Western Digital Corporation's San Jose, California headquarters. The well-known storage company, which also operates the SanDisk brand, has been mired by one issue after another. Adding to it, now people are losing their data, the cardinal sin of storage devices.
SanDisk now offers a massive 1TB capacity SD card that can hit transfer speeds fast enough to nab a V60 rating, making it fast enough to use for many 4K and even 6K video recording applications.
CFexpress has finally come into its own and multiple companies are now producing a wide variety of capacities at a range of prices. But with so many choices, which one should you buy?
Working on videos for my YouTube channel, I’ve been finding that even the SSDs I own aren’t able to keep up with the transfer speeds needed for live editing of 10-bit 4K video. As I test things for PetaPixel, like the super-high resolution cameras with 6K and higher footage capabilities that using the fastest drives possible becomes increasingly important.
SanDisk has announced the Pro-G40 SSD, a super-fast external storage device that can connect to computers using either USB-C or Thunderbolt 3 through its single port.
SanDisk has announced new high-capacity SD and microSD cards that seemingly defy the laws of the UHS-I standard. Despite using the UHS-I specification that is limited to 104 MB/s, these new cards boast 200 MB/s speeds.
SanDisk has announced a new solid state drive (SSD) system called the Pro-Blade. Billed as a modular ecosystem, the company says that it is designed to allow creators to easily swap high-capacity "mags" into one enclosure that dramatically reduces bulk.
Wise, a memory manufacturer based in Taiwan, has announced the world's first 512GB capacity v90 SDXC UHS-II memory card. Doubling the capacity of others on the market, the card promises a sustained write speed of at least 90 MB/s.
Photographers and videographers who shoot large campaigns leave sets with a ton of data that needs to be ingested, backed up, and organized for editing. For successful businesses, one measly SD card slot on the back of a computer doesn't cut it. For them, a multi-card ingestion device is a must, and right now the SanDisk Professional Pro-Dock 4 is absolutely unbeatable in that department.
Western Digital says that certain materials at two of its manufacturing centers in Japan were contaminated, resulting in the loss of 6.5 exabytes -- 6.5 billion gigabytes -- of flash storage.
A cheap adapter from Sintech allows industrious photographers to take inexpensive SSDs and build their own CFexpress memory cards at home, allowing them to possibly save hundreds of dollars over "official" cards.
After reading my story on its $300 SD Express card, Ritz Gear reached out and insisted that I try it for myself. The company even included an SD Express card reader in an attempt, I assume, to show its value. After testing, I am at a loss: this is so much worse than I ever thought it could be.
Ritz Gear is currently offering a brand new SD Express memory card that it promises boasts up to 820 MB/s read and 500 MB/s write speeds for $300. In real-world use cases, it will never come close to these promises and it says so right on the box.
As cameras have rapidly evolved over the last decade, so have the requirements to get the most out of them. Specifically, what a photographer should care about when it comes to a computer has gone from simple, to somewhat complicated and often nuanced.
If you're a content creator in need of professional-grade storage drives, Western Digital's newly unveiled SanDisk Professional line of premium storage solutions is just for you.
Western Digital is showing off the world's highest capacity, portable SSD at CES 2020. It's the SanDisk 8TB SSD, and it's small enough to be easily slipped into your pocket.
CFexpress is the next generation of ultra-fast memory card, but nobody is selling or supporting them yet. Well, nobody in the US anyway. This week, SanDisk quietly began selling its Extreme Pro CFexpress (Type B) memory cards in the UK, France, Italy and Spain, leaving the rest of us to refresh our browsers in the hopes that they'll appear in the US as well.
Want to shoot high-res photos and 4K video all day on a single microSD card? SanDisk just launched the world's first 1 terabyte microSD card.
If you're an outdoor photographer who needs a tiny and lightweight storage device that can withstand everything that you and your camera can, SanDisk's new Extreme Portable SSD is one that's designed for you.
Western Digital has announced the new SanDisk Extreme 400GB UHS-I microSD, the world's fastest-ever UHS-I microSD card.
Today, SanDisk released the world's highest capacity microSD card to date: the 400GB SanDisk microSDXC Ultra UHS-I card. It's targeted at mobile users who have a lot of data to store on their smartphones, including high-res photos and videos.
Sandisk has just launched the new iXpand Base, a charging station for the iPhone that also helps to keep your photos and data safely backed up.
High-speed memory cards can be pricey, so you want to know that you’re getting the performance that you are paying for before you lay down the cash. This 8-minute video from Tom’s Tech Time compares 10 microSD cards for their read/write performance, and the results show that the numbers used in marketing cannot always be trusted.
It has finally happened: an SD card has now broken the 1 terabyte threshold. SanDisk and its parent company Western Digital today unveiled a new 1 terabyte SDXC card, ushering in a new era of tiny memory cards with massive storage capacities.
Remember 6 days ago, when we said tiny storage like microSD was finally getting the R&D love it deserved? We may have been on to something, because Samsung just introduced a new kind of tiny memory card that could leave microSD cards in the dust.
The memory card wars are fought on two playing fields: size and speed. And SanDisk is claiming victories on both fields today with the release of the 256GB SanDisk Extreme microSDXC UHS-I card—the world's fastest 256GB microSD card.
Canon has released an official service advisory for the 1D X Mark II that you'll want to pay attention to if you're one of the few already using the new camera. Apparently, some SanDisk CFast 2.0 cards don't play well with the 1D X Mark II; in fact, they'll corrupt some of your images.
It happened. Seven months after announcing the planned acquisition and one quarter ahead of schedule, Western Digital has officially acquired SanDisk, "creating a global leader in storage technology."