> Name a storage brand without such a reputation? Sorry, I should have included the qualifier recent. Western Digital has had several recent high profile data

> Name a storage brand without such a 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.