Who invented the thumb drive?
I'm surprised that the market for this is hot. Who is still buying USB sticks or SD cards? I haven't in quite a while, because I don't know who to trust anymore: cheaper variants are likely to be those counterfeits with hacked metadata that advertise having 4-10x the capacity they have[0], and more expensive ones are a crapshoot wrt. performance.<p>In recent years, for the occasional need to physically move some files, I've been using my phone as USB storage. Or, in the very rare case that isn't enough, a portable HDD or portable SSD drive.<p>EDIT: As mentioned in a reply, I still have a bunch of USB sticks I bought bought some 8-12 years ago, before counterfeiting was that big of a deal. In a very rare case I need to make a bootable drive, I reach into the desk drawer and dust one off.<p>----<p>[0] - That's one of the nastiest form of fraud/counterfeiting I've ever experienced in the computing space. Less performant or even less functional hardware is one thing, but a 256 MB USB stick that pretends to be a 4 GB one will happily accept the first few files a typical user would put on it, lulling them into false sense of security, and then silently drop everything that's over 256 MB - a fact the user would only discover when trying to <i>read back</i> the data they "stored" on the USB stick, often days later, long after deleting the original files. I imagine it still beats ransomware on the metric of "priceless photos of loved ones forever lost, because some asshole thought they found a clever way to make money".