2023 has been a nasty 12 months for Western Digital. Last spring, a serious safety breach occurred that locked customers out of their cloud-connected storage devices. Now the producer is beneath fireplace for SSDs that unexpectedly disconnect and erase customers’ information.

Ars Technica has summarized the state of affairs and notes that three totally different lawsuits have now been filed towards Western Digital after months of complaints by clients. They primarily concern a lot of fashions within the SanDisk Extreme sequence of SSDs, however the 4-terabyte model of WD My Passport is claimed to have the identical downside. One member of the Ars Technica editorial workforce – and one other at The Verge – reportedly skilled the sudden lack of information.

Western Digital launched an update in May, meant to resolve issues with SSDs all of a sudden disconnecting from the pc. But given the big variety of testimonies and the lawsuits which have now been filed towards the producer, in addition to the corroborating stories from the Verge and Ars Technica, evidently the issue nonetheless exists to some extent.

Ars Technica has tried to get a remark from Western Digital, which stated that it doesn’t touch upon ongoing litigation. The Verge has additionally not obtained any solutions to their questions.

Regardless of how this all shakes out, these stories of dying SanDisk SSDs serve as a painful reminder about storage reliability. Just like the unique WD MyCloud outage, it harshly reiterates why you must all the time comply with the backup rule of three.

This article was translated from Swedish to English and initially appeared on pcforalla.se.