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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: Mon, 24 Oct 2016 13:54:56 +1100
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"nospam" <nospam@nospam.invalid> wrote in message 
news:231020162203592974%nospam@nospam.invalid...
> In article <nujoip$a48$1@gioia.aioe.org>, Computer Nerd Kev
> <not@telling.you.invalid> wrote:
>
>>
>> If the USB <insert preferred term> sticks get hot in different
>> computers then the failure isn't in the computer after all. unless
>> the stress under the 5V high voltage has causes parts of them
>> to short and now they're heating up at normal voltage, but
>> it's unlikely that different models would all fail in that
>> way.
>
> getting hot is not necessarily a failure.
>
> some usb sticks run hot. others don't. most get warm. it's normal.

NOT WHEN DOING NOTHING it isnt.