Curse English idioms, I literally thought they were rebranding to Mud.
this post was submitted on 18 Aug 2023
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I mean, after X it looks downright sensible.
It’s a more down to earth name at least.
sigh
It's because of the capitalization. If the title was "SanDisk's name is now mud" this wouldn't happen.
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I was also very, very confused at first.
I guess I was thinking that if Gwyneth Paltrow could found a company called Goop that anything goes these days.
Wouldn't be the weirdest rebrand recently, honestly
Good thing it explains it in the second line of the article.
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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.
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50% percent off a product that is almost guaranteed to lead to complete data loss?
By Grabthar's Hammer, what a savings!
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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I came back to comment. I'm still chuckling at your Galaxy Quest quote
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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.
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...
Yep, and shame on clickbaity tech "news" websites for churning out "awesome deals on SanDisk SSDs!" articles with no mention of the failures.
It took my sleep deprived brain far too long (less than a second, but still) to realise this wasn't a genuine name change.
Me too! I was thinking, "Why would any brand rebrand themselves to Mud? That is even worse than Twitter rebranding to X!"
Same. The stupid capitalisation of nouns doesn't help.
I grew up with title case being a thing ☹️
I'm almost certain this article is written by an AI
Then comes around the summarizer bot
I used the AI to destroy the AI
There's no way this article wasn't written by AI, the formatting is so weird.
Is this article written by AI?!
They were acquired by Western Digital in 2016, so why not point at WD?
Literally? Are they pulling an Elon?
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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So what's a better quality option?
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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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.
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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This explains the SanDisk sale on newegg
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.
Thanks Western Digital!
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