Recommended: Micron/Crucial and Samsung. About external SSD, I have Samsung T7 500GB and Samsung T7 Shield 2TB.
Not recommended: Sandisk and WD (Western Digital), files can disappear anytime.
- https://petapixel.com/2023/08/08/sandisk-portable-ssds-are-failing-so-frequently-we-can-no-longer-recommend-them/
- https://www.theverge.com/22291828/sandisk-extreme-pro-portable-my-passport-failure-continued
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37042587
- https://www.theverge.com/23837513/western-digital-sandisk-ssd-corrupted-deleted-questions
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37188736
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