I tried several random cheap sticks recently and they all died within a year.
A funny story: In my second grade at school, I got gifted a 4gb stick for winning something related to IT, it was around 2009. It worked all this time as a distro stick, until my PC couldn’t see it anymore. I thought it died, but I tried it a year after and it magically works again now
Thank you for this 🥲🥲