Name a storage brand without such a reputation?
There's a reason the usual advice is "Backup", not "Choose a good vendor of storage products".
There's a reason the usual advice is "Backup", not "Choose a good vendor of storage products".
Although Since then they have managed at least 15 years of decent reputation.
Sorry, I should have included the qualifier recent.
Western Digital has had several recent high profile data loss issues
Of course you won't find a storage vendor with a spotless history, but Western Digital flash devices are spontaneously failing in the past 2 years and there's no solid indication that they've actually fixed the root cause in the affected products.