I've had no trouble with Sandisk -- thumb drives,
anyway -- &, in all the years I've been running Linux, the only
manufacturers of drives I've had no trouble with are Maxtor.
While every other drive had given me one problem or another in
Linux, I've used a number of different Maxtors in various distros
of Linux, & they've all worked beautifully.

Plus, they're often less expensive than others.