I’m not necessarily saying that Phison is unreliable, but to me, they are unproven. I’m extremely picky with my storage because I have lost a lot of drives over the years, and much of that was because chose bad hardware. Of course with storage and really any product in general, any brand will fail at least sometimes, but I feel much safer with a proven brand like Intel and Crucial and, for the most part, Samsung.

I applaud Phison for stepping up here, but I personally will probably avoid their higher-end products for at least a year just to let other people with more money than me test them out.

Phison drives were never unreliable. They were just slow, because phison mostly did budget stuff in the past (crucial v4 or torq2 for example).

Now their controllers are much better and are pretty decent compared to the competition.