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Report reveals decline in quality of USB sticks and microSD Cards | Low-quality NAND chips are finding their way into branded devices
The report, from German data recovery company CBL, concluded that NAND chips from reputable manufacturers such as Hynix, Sandisk, or Samsung that had failed quality control were...
A new study found that more devices are using NAND chips with reduced capacity and their manufacturers' logo removed, while some USB sticks use the old trick of soldiering a microSD card onto the board. The report, from German data recovery company CBL, concluded that NAND chips from reputable manufacturers such as Hynix, Sandisk, or Samsung that had failed quality control were being resold and repurposed. In order to increase the amount of storage the chips offered, manufacturers started moving to four bits per cell (QLC), decreasing the endurance and retention.
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