Rejected chips, hidden microSD cards plague the USB stick market

Ars Technica
By Kevin PurdyFeb 7, 2024, 3:39 pm307 pts
Enlarge / A microSD card of "unknown origin" is soldered onto the USB to serve as makeshift NAND storage. (credit: CBL Data recovery) When a German data recovery firm recently made a study of the failed flash storage drives it had been sent, it noticed some interesting bad trends. Most of them were cheap…

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