> And nearly always the cheap cards seem to fail due to firmware shortcomings rather than hardware faults. Ie. the built in wear levelling and error recovery is

> And nearly always the cheap cards seem to fail due to firmware shortcomings rather than hardware faults. Ie. the built in wear levelling and error recovery is bad. Well, higher quality cards have better performing controllers that operate at higher speeds or have dedicated hardware offloads for stuff that a "cheaper" controller has to do in software.