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I've used so many of their memory cards, flash drives, not much in the way of SSDs. I've had only one fail on me, that I can remember. I don't want to say it's not happening. But I also wonder how many fakes ppl received, damaging SD's name. Either way, aside from this latest spat, they've made pretty good products. There was another period years ago I felt they dropped the ball, can't remember why, but otherwise generally good.
Same here. I've only stopped using their stuff when it was already too small for me. Their CruzerBlade flash drives are my favorite flash drives thanks to their fast random access. I installed Linux Mint on 1 of them and it runs fairly well. Much faster than HDD unless you're doing large file transfers. Obviously this greatly limits their lifespan, flash drives can't handle so many writes.
I just replaced a SanDisk MicroSD card in my phone for Samsung one, and I regret it. Moving many small files is noticeably slower.
On the other hand there's Philips. Sequential I/O gave me better results than the SanDisk drive, but that thing isn't even useful as installation disk. That thing is just awfully slow. How they managed to make a flash drive slower than DVD, I don't understand. But hopefully it's just faulty unit that I have.