Austrian data recovery specialist discovers hardware defects on SanDisk Extreme Portable SSDs, Western Digital denies claims.

Recently, Markus Häfele, an Austrian data recovery specialist from Attingo, told FutureZone that the reason behind the SanDisk Extreme SSD failures is due to soldering problems, not firmware problems,

Image from Attingo

In a document released last week, Attingo and FutureZone revealed some information about the defective SanDisk Extreme SSDs, explaining that the components are too big to fit on the SSD circuit board, however, it is believed that Western Digital is aware of the issue due to the inclusion of extra epoxy resin on newer SanDisk Extreme SSDs, but despite this, they still defect and become unusable.

Western Digital then told PetaPixel that the defective SSDs are not caused by hardware defects, but did say they will investigate the SanDisk Extreme SSDs that were defective.

As of publishing this post, my SanDisk Extreme Go SSD has not gone defective.