All my personal photo albums are stored across 2 sandisk extreme pro devices, and these devices are prone to spontaneously fail (causing complete data loss): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38241583<p>That scares me (a lot).<p>My plan is to buy another brand of SSD and move the files across asap.<p>But, before I do that, is there a way to <i>know</i> (e.g. by looking up the specific model number or even production batch number) for sure if the two Sandisk SSDs I own are among the models/batches that are prone to spontaneous failure/data loss?<p>Sorry this is such a 'dumb' question - feels like it should be easily answerable on my own, but from a couple of hours searching/reading, then a reddit post (removed - off topic), and a stack exchange post (same fate and reason as reddit post), combined with the fact Sandisk denies there's even a problem and thus haven't issued a recall, it's very hard for me to answer this seemingly rudimentary question.<p>Thanks so much for any help/advice.
ngl had similar concerns ... if worst comes to it<p>Maybe invest in a RAID like storage /
Go back to HDD, as data can be recovered professionally /
Store in those military grade solutions ( LaCie ) /
Write it to a bunch of DVDs<p>just my 2 cents
<i>Sorry this is such a 'dumb' question</i><p>Not a dumb question at all. Put the serial numbers into this [1] site.<p>[1] - <a href="https://support-en.wd.com/app/firmwareupdate" rel="nofollow">https://support-en.wd.com/app/firmwareupdate</a>