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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
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.
Ah yeah, I should probably have added to not buy it from Amazon, due to the mixed inventory issues you're referring to. At least in my country, this doesn't seem to be an issue with our other retailers.
Not good news if you can't even trust the big brands from anyone though. Samsung and SanDisk were always my go to, but I'm reading both have had recent quality control issues
This doesn't help with counterfeit though. So many conterfeit usb thumsticks these days. They're might be obvious for tech-savvy users to identify (blue usb jack but slow ass usb 2.0 speed, or weird typo in device name), but most person probably wouldn't notice they're using conterfeit devices.
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
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