Judge Relates 2 Class Actions Alleging Western Digital Sold Consumers Defective SSDs

U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria for Northern California in San Francisco granted an administrative motion relating a more recently filed action, Bax v. Western Digital (docket 5:23-cv-04543), to a case previously assigned to him, Krum v. Western Digital (docket 3:23-cv-04152), said the judge’s signed order Wednesday. The plaintiffs in both class actions allege that Western Digital sold them multiple models of external and portable solid-state drives, including those under the SanDisk brand, that contain a defect that causes customers to lose all of their stored data (see 2308180004). Similar fraud class actions have recently been piling up in the Northern District of California (see 2308240026).