Not clanker but simply: Clank!

I tend to get a new phone every other year. I bought a phone last year so I will probably be excited to see the Pixel 10 next year!

I buy Samsung SSDs when I can afford them, Kingston when money is tight. Samsung is faster, especially their NVME drives. Both have been very reliable for me.

These are used drives that have about 35K hours (4 years) of power on time.
Good quality drives to be sure, but maybe not as reliable now as they once were.