I had gotten this as a backup for my Blackmagic Pocket Cinema 6K Pro (my main drive is a Samsung T5) so I had not really used it, especially once the whole thing of SanDisk drives failing, I didn’t really use it.

Then Western Digital came out with the serial number chacker and my drive passed, so decided to use it for a project I was color correcting on my iPad Pro. I worked on a quick color correct on a short for a couple of days, and then tried to move the project back to my Mac.

I opened the project in DaVinci and re-linked the media and started going down the timeline, and got about 10 shots in, when the drive disconnected. I tried reconnecting it and it came back up, and stayed online for a few minutes, then disconnected.

Now I basically used the drive only because Western Digital said it wasn’t a bad one. So they say they are giving me an RMA and when I return the drive they will send a replacement. Nothing about the media I lost. And will I trust a new one? Not really. Maybe I can use it as a Media Cache, as if I lose renders who cares, but for anything important no damn way!

SanDisk should pull these drives completely and return our money, and a bonus for the lost media. I will never use another SanDisk Drive. How can I trust them.