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SanDisk's Name is Now Mud (petapixel.com)

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[-] Erika2rsis@lemmy.blahaj.zone 332 points 10 months ago

Curse English idioms, I literally thought they were rebranding to Mud.

[-] platysalty@kbin.social 68 points 10 months ago

I mean, after X it looks downright sensible.

[-] Marsupial@quokk.au 24 points 10 months ago

It’s a more down to earth name at least.

[-] platysalty@kbin.social 10 points 10 months ago

sigh

[-] Omgarm@lemmy.world 65 points 10 months ago

It's because of the capitalization. If the title was "SanDisk's name is now mud" this wouldn't happen.

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[-] Caligvla@lemmy.dbzer0.com 47 points 10 months ago

I was also very, very confused at first.

[-] Erika2rsis@lemmy.blahaj.zone 16 points 10 months ago

I guess I was thinking that if Gwyneth Paltrow could found a company called Goop that anything goes these days.

[-] CanniBallistic_Puppy@lemmy.world 12 points 10 months ago

I'm pretty sure that was the author's intention.

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[-] TheSpookiestUser@lemmy.world 31 points 10 months ago

Wouldn't be the weirdest rebrand recently, honestly

[-] Zorque@kbin.social 10 points 10 months ago

Good thing it explains it in the second line of the article.

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[-] Pons_Aelius@kbin.social 199 points 10 months ago

Just an FYI on Sandisk.

They were acquired by Western Digital in 2016.

So this bullshit falls as much at WD's feet as it does their wholly owned subsidiary, Sandisk.

[-] ElPussyKangaroo@lemmy.world 13 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Wait... Is that true? Holy fuck.

Edit: Yes. Yes it is. Fuck.

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[-] Pons_Aelius@kbin.social 169 points 10 months ago

50% percent off a product that is almost guaranteed to lead to complete data loss?

By Grabthar's Hammer, what a savings!

[-] reflex@kbin.social 30 points 10 months ago

50% percent off a product that is almost guaranteed to lead to complete data loss?

Get them for people you hate. 😏

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[-] thefartographer@lemm.ee 12 points 10 months ago

I came back to comment. I'm still chuckling at your Galaxy Quest quote

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[-] Bell@lemmy.world 152 points 10 months ago

Let's be clear that a failing part is one thing but silently dumping them on the public is the unforgivable failure. I hope shareholders are seeing this and selling.

[-] Pons_Aelius@kbin.social 58 points 10 months ago

I hope shareholders are seeing this and selling.

Sandisk has been a wholly owned subsidiary of Western Digital since 2016.

WD's share price is up ~25% this year...

[-] root@lemmy.world 21 points 10 months ago

They're saving a ton by not matching our 401ks anymore

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[-] Bell@lemmy.world 11 points 10 months ago

But WDC is down almost 10% in the last 10 days

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[-] loutr@sh.itjust.works 12 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Yep, and shame on clickbaity tech "news" websites for churning out "awesome deals on SanDisk SSDs!" articles with no mention of the failures.

[-] daddyjones@lemmy.world 146 points 10 months ago

It took my sleep deprived brain far too long (less than a second, but still) to realise this wasn't a genuine name change.

[-] randint@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 59 points 10 months ago

Me too! I was thinking, "Why would any brand rebrand themselves to Mud? That is even worse than Twitter rebranding to X!"

[-] mapro@lemm.ee 33 points 10 months ago

Same. The stupid capitalisation of nouns doesn't help.

[-] spongebue@lemmy.world 13 points 10 months ago

I grew up with title case being a thing ☹️

[-] AMAMazing@aussie.zone 60 points 10 months ago

I feel like there's a better way to title this article

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[-] Smacks@lemmy.world 42 points 10 months ago

I'm almost certain this article is written by an AI

[-] QuazarOmega@lemy.lol 18 points 10 months ago

Then comes around the summarizer bot

I used the AI to destroy the AI

[-] Sproux@lemmy.dbzer0.com 41 points 10 months ago

There's no way this article wasn't written by AI, the formatting is so weird.

[-] Sused@lemmy.sdf.org 40 points 10 months ago

Is this article written by AI?!

[-] Muddobbers@infosec.pub 33 points 10 months ago

No, MY name is Mud- oh, wait, yeah, carry on.

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[-] shotgun_crab@lemmy.world 30 points 10 months ago

Play the primus song

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[-] Echo71Niner@kbin.social 26 points 10 months ago

They were acquired by Western Digital in 2016, so why not point at WD?

[-] Psythik@lemm.ee 23 points 10 months ago

Literally? Are they pulling an Elon?

[-] reason@lemm.ee 21 points 10 months ago

For those unfamiliar, the phrase “one’s name is mud” means that a person, or in this case a brand, is widely unpopular due to disgrace or scandal>

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[-] ComfortablyGlum@sh.itjust.works 20 points 10 months ago

So what's a better quality option?

[-] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 10 months ago

So far I only bought Samsung SSDs
for internal use and expanded that to Crucial as well.

Only heard good things about Sabrent, Kioxia and Samsung so far and not much bad.

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[-] TheMadnessKing@lemdro.id 20 points 10 months ago

How are Samsung's SSD?

I am looking to buy one external drive of 2 TB for Backup of my multi-media collection and 1 M.2 SSD for my laptop upgrades.

If someone can even specify the model that's known to be good would really be helpful.

[-] glimse@lemmy.world 23 points 10 months ago

I've been using their evos for awhile and they're solid.

[-] Dicska@lemmy.world 25 points 10 months ago

Well, every SSD is [S]olid.

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[-] Kangie@lemmy.srcfiles.zip 9 points 10 months ago

I've soured on them a bit recently. The 980 Pro firmware bugs hit me on a bunch of machines.

Samsung refuse to use the Linux Vendor Firmware Service that enables fwupd to apply firmware updates (even though Dell resold Samsung products receive updates here. Thanks Dell!).

The official Samsung firmware updater image is/was (for years) broken on modern AMD platforms (guess what I was running all of those 10NVMes in?)

Finally, I had to do [this bloody hack] (https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Samsung_SSD_Firmware) on each machine to get their Firmware updated.

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[-] whatisallthis@lemm.ee 17 points 10 months ago

Waiting for a Primus fan to make the joke

[-] cowpowered@lemm.ee 8 points 10 months ago

Primus sucks!

[-] altima_neo@lemmy.zip 12 points 10 months ago

This explains the SanDisk sale on newegg

[-] TwilightVulpine@lemmy.world 11 points 10 months ago

So what are good brands for SD cards and SSDs?

[-] XTornado@lemmy.ml 12 points 10 months ago

For SD complicated, I guess Samsung they seem good quality price.

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[-] altima_neo@lemmy.zip 9 points 10 months ago

Thanks Western Digital!

[-] Necronomicommunist@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 10 months ago

Had an SSD of theirs fail and it took weeks to get a warranty replacement out and was the biggest hassle ever. If the customer service was tolerable I'd have considered renting, but even without this news I'd never buy or recommend them.

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