One more lesson applies to usb memory sticks. All of the guts visit China before going into the cases with those trademarks on them.
On Fri, 1 Oct 2021, Cindy Sue Causey wrote: > On 10/1/21, to...@tuxteam.de <to...@tuxteam.de> wrote: > > > > I take two lessons out of it: > > > > (1) quality of those things scatters widely. Do take Marco's > > advise seriously and have always a Plan B. In my case, it's > > Just A Backup (TM), so I make it so my main disk doesnt > > fail until I find a replacement stick ;-@ > > Left that in because it has applied to all the hardware I've ever > bought. Ages ago, I mused on here that every critical hardware aspect > of computing needs *at least one* backup sitting in a drawer nearby. > At the time, it was probably about something like those ethernet to > USB adapters. It might have been about external dialup modems, too. > > > (2) I have the hunch that the name on the shell bears little > > relation to the guts inside. The latter are whatever the vendor > > putting its name on the outside can scavenge cheaply off the > > market at some point in time. So trading brand names might > > be possibly misleading ;-) > > Am only typing because I just experienced this with keyboards. Six or > eight keyboards were stuffed under my nose in a vendor's email last > night. All looked exactly the same, just had different seller logos on > a nameplate sitting right above the arrow keys. > > Last night the prices were within a couple dollars of each other (plus > the same outrageous shipping). In the past, the prices have sometimes > been $20 apart for what is obviously the exact same item. :) > > Cindy :) >