Does losing them count as a failure? If so, a lot have failed on me. If not, never had one outright fail. At most, I've had a USB slow down transfer speeds onc

Does losing them count as a failure? If so, a lot have failed on me. If not, never had one outright fail. At most, I've had a USB slow down transfer speeds once. But, I could still get all of my data off of it.