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More and more USB sticks and microSD cards are being made with dubious components — data recovery firm uncovers no-name, low-quality NAND inside many devices (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] fidodo@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] 9point6@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

I guess that would fall under the "don't care if you lose the data" scenario.

Though even then, I'd be annoyed at my time being wasted if I couldn't copy the file off again