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“We just lost 3TB of data on a SanDisk Extreme SSD” - The Verge
(www.theverge.com)
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
They may have been doing video editing on it. That can be a good amount of read/writes that will wear down a drive.
Vjeran is a supervising producer of a tech site. He should know to back shit up. I'm sure a site as big as The Verge has decent cloud backup.