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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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[–] [email protected] 17 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I always use f3probe when I buy a new usb drive or micro sd. I seem to have gotten lucky using Amazon in the past. It's other suppliers that I've found to be most unreliable. https://fight-flash-fraud.readthedocs.io/en/latest/introduction.html