Hi HN,<p>I wanted to send out a PSA about a terrible product: the SanDisk Extreme external SSD.<p>I bought one a couple of years back, which one day simply stopped mounting to any computer I had. I sent it to a recovery service but they couldn't find the problem either but they kept it with them.<p>After a while they discovered that the drive has a heat sink issue where the components are not sufficiently cooled and start to malfunction. They said it was a common problem they have noticed with these drives. They were able to recover my data but of course it costs a lot. For me the cost of recovery was worth it but it does not make sense to pay 10x the cost of the drive to extract data that it loses.<p>Don't buy this drive. If you already have one, back it up to some other media and don't store anything of value on it.<p>And of course, always have two copies of your data at the very least.