If you own a high-speed USB 3.0 flash drive, there is a high probability it runs on a controller from Phison. Among their most common controller families are the (often labeled in firmware tools as the PS2307 ). These drives offer excellent price-to-performance ratios, but they are also notorious for sudden corruption, write speed drops to 0 MB/s, or Windows asking to "Format the disk."

"Hello, little monster," Aris murmured, unplugging the drive.