A lot of times you only use a flash drive to move files from one device to another, in which case if the quality matches the price then it might not be a big deal
Sounds like part of the issue might be that your not-so-cheap storage might still be using the cheap components…
There’s plenty of stuff that masquerades as trusted brands, ends up mixed in the inventory of a certain large etailer and is actually fake crap under the hood. There’s also the real brands’ merch that can be good but make a run with cheap components in the name of cutting costs, or with flakey firmware that may cost reliability for a slight uptick in performance. A certain brand of SSD had the latter issue years ago, and it’s looks like there’s a lawsuit against Western Digital for that currently.
Never cheap out on data storage unless you’re okay losing what you store. Always get an independently well reviewed product from a known band
A lot of times you only use a flash drive to move files from one device to another, in which case if the quality matches the price then it might not be a big deal
Sounds like part of the issue might be that your not-so-cheap storage might still be using the cheap components…
There’s plenty of stuff that masquerades as trusted brands, ends up mixed in the inventory of a certain large etailer and is actually fake crap under the hood. There’s also the real brands’ merch that can be good but make a run with cheap components in the name of cutting costs, or with flakey firmware that may cost reliability for a slight uptick in performance. A certain brand of SSD had the latter issue years ago, and it’s looks like there’s a lawsuit against Western Digital for that currently.