[Discuss] SanDisk Extreme SSDs keep abruptly failing—firmware fix for only some promised | Ars Technica

[Ted Vahey]

Follow up - I tried the EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard.

I was able to recover what appears to be all the data. Unfortunately it did
not restore the folder structure. Thankfully, the vast majority of the
files were well named.

I’ll reach out to SanDisk and see if there’s a firmware update available.

-Ted


On Sat, May 20, 2023 at 11:11 AM Ted Vahey <ted at allsystems.com> wrote:

> Thanks Rich. Fortunately this happened after the end of the semester. The
> disk was used for an interim process for video editing. So he’s got all the
> files he needs. I’m interested in seeing what can be done to retrieve the
> files on the disk. More of an educational project for myself.
>
> On Sat, May 20, 2023 at 8:59 AM Rich Pieri <richard.pieri at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> On Sat, 20 May 2023 08:44:14 -0400
>> Ted Vahey <ted at allsystems.com> wrote:
>>
>> > My son just had a failure on his 4TB.
>> >
>> > 😬
>> >
>> > Any suggestions on recovery tools?
>>
>> Restore from backup.
>>
>> Unfortunately, when SSDs fail, they tend to fail abruptly and
>> catastrophically. When this happens? You got yourself a fancy silicon
>> brick. Maybe a firmware update -- if SanDisk ever provide one -- can
>> restore functionality.
>
>
>>
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