Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: "Rod Speed" Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware.storage,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage Subject: Re: Is it me or are there many unreliable USB flash drives? Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2016 16:05:11 +1100 Lines: 56 Message-ID: References: <191020160913063207%YourName@YourISP.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="Windows-1252"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net Dw0d/R+wMdDeTXu3lkYZDgZo1G0+6FQxuTc9jSBObLeH2SEU4= Cancel-Lock: sha1:6HV2UHJXCD6Co/lPwBhCrFeRDBk= In-Reply-To: X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal Importance: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Windows Live Mail 14.0.8117.416 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V14.0.8117.416 Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.mac.hardware.storage:1309 comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage:7153 "Ant" wrote in message news:P8GdnQOy9fPBBJvFnZ2dnUU7-SudnZ2d@earthlink.com... > In comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage Computer Nerd Kev > wrote: >> In comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage Your Name >> wrote: >> > In article , Doc O'Leary >> > wrote: >> > >> >> For your reference, records indicate that >> >> ANTant@zimage.com (Ant) wrote: >> >> >> >> > Either I'm having bad luck or USB flash drives suck even with >> >> > various >> >> > sizes (e.g., 512 MB to 32 GB), well known brand names (e.g., >> >> > SanDisk), >> >> > and cheap/free ones (SP [a few years] and Patriot [had it since >> >> > 10/3/2015]). They don't seems like they don't last longer than a >> >> > year. I >> >> > keep them in my drawers, wallets, etc. >> >> >> >> Of course, anyone who remembers how unreliable floppy disks used to >> >> be would treasure a one year life span. >> > >> > I can't say I've ever had any real problems with floppy disks. I've >> > still got a huge pile of them (some magazine cover disks, some my own >> > disks). In fact, the biggest issue I've ever had with floppy disks is >> > the drive in my beige G3 dying and I didn't have the time nor equipment >> > to fix it, so I got an external USB one instead. >> > >> > A large part of the issue many people had with floppy disks is due to >> > the way they treated them. Mine were and are always stored in boxes, >> > never simply thrown into bags or pockets alone. > >> I found that frequent erasures and writes of large files killed them >> fairly fast, with just small writes to text files or the like they >> served a good life, and for Read-Only use I've found they last very >> well indeed. > > Is this still true for USB flash drives? No its not. I mostly copy movie files. I do torrent quite a few small music files too but mostly put them directly on the iphone the one kid who gets them wants them on. > I was copying HUGE files Should be fine, I mostly do that. > and even installing mac OS Sierra onto > these two recent 32 GB USB flash drives. Havent done any of that.