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From: "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Is it me or are there many unreliable USB flash drives?
Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2016 05:01:25 +1100
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"Jolly Roger" <jollyroger@pobox.com> wrote in message 
news:e6pj30F524nU6@mid.individual.net...
> On 2016-10-19, Ant <ANTant@zimage.com> wrote:
>> In comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> 
>> wrote:
>>> On 2016-10-18, Ant <ANTant@zimage.com> wrote:
>>> > In comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage Rod Speed 
>>> > <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> >> Ant <ANTant@zimage.com> wrote
>>> >
>>> >> > Either I'm having bad luck
>>> >
>>> >> Or are mistreating them in some way.
>>> >
>>> > Maybe. I am trying to figure out why so many failed USB flash drives 
>>> > on
>>> > my side.
>>
>>> Maybe stop sitting on them.
>>
>> I don't put them in my rear pockets. They go in my front pockets.
>
> So?

So he isnt SITTING on them.

> It's quite possible to place objects in your
> front pocket under significant stress.

But he isnt SITTING on them.