Review on 💿 Verbatim 16GB Metal Executive USB Flash Drive - Silver: The Ultimate Combination of Style and Storage (98748) by Jaye Cleveland

I bought a Verbatim 32GB flash drive almost exactly a year ago. I've used it probably 20 times since it was mostly for casual use last year. Most of the time it just stayed in my backpack. About a month ago I noticed that my Macbook doesn't recognize it and uses a different method to transfer the files I need. Then I tried again today, this time on my Windows desktop. Windows recognized the drive just fine and I was able to view its contents. However, some files appeared strange (e.g. directories with unenumerable content). I then opened the config file and noticed random character corruption (I checked for single byte errors with a hex dump). In the file I was looking at, 23 out of 341 bytes were corrupted. To me accidental byte corruption is probably the worst case scenario as it can look fine until you destroy the good data with it.