Many years ago, Vauxhall cars in the UK, made a car named 'the Cresta' (or it may have been the 'Creda'). A guy I know of knew another guy who bought one, had to change a front wheel, and jacked up the front of the car. The windscreen glass cracked. The salesman in the showroom didn't believe it, until he took the jack out the boot of the showroom car, jacked that car, and broke the glass too. The story was that they had bought a cheap batch of steel that even Ford had rejected.
You are being naive, if you believe that Sandisk make 100% reliable ssd devices. Plus, look at the advertising content for wd, inherent in his tale. Now, what would your response be, if on shaking it, bits fell out, or something had moved whatever?
Sandisk are made in Korea, (not that that means much) but in my gps, I have to use some other brands, most any Japanese, such as Kingston, due to reliability/timing issues. It doesn't always work straight out of the box, never mind what the manufacturer will have you believe. It's all mass assembled tat, if some process is just off of adjustment, you can get a problem. None of it is tested thoroughly before sale, so how is the amateur reviewer expected to test it, if the manufacturer can't or won't?
The way it works, these days, is make it cheap, make it fast, sell at high price, replace the few that get reported for failing, and move on to the next version.
Most of the computer systems that are used in military aircraft have little in common with the domestic product, and generally has some sort of more stringent test procedures. I would be very surprised if they based a multi-million pound aircraft safety, plus crew, on a recently released cheap as chip domestic bit of electronic anything.
But the reviewer, whoever he may be, has reported what he did, both good and bad, which is far better than a lot of the stuff I used to read.
Best wishes,
Ray
