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Re: Is it me or are there many unreliable USB flash drives?

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Ant <ANTant@zimage.com> wrote
> 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.

Yeah, very suspicious given that we don’t get so many failures.

Don’t you get quite a few hard drive failures
too or am I remembering that wrong ?

>>> Some just stopped working and not detected at all
>>> by any computers (desktops and (laptop/notebook)s
>>> and OSes (Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows).

>> That is the result I got with the only one that has failed.
>> I haven't even bothered to open it up to check how its
>> failed, whether it is a simple mechanical failure, dry
>> joint/cracked trace etc or what.

> Their cases are hard to open up!

Some of them arent, have a look at the youtube teardowns.

> Looking at their USB connectors, they look clean and fine to me.

Yeah, it’s a pretty robust connector. I have
seen some cables  develop weak springs tho.

I use a cable from the USB port on the desktop to plug
the USB stick into, just so the cable socket is to the left
of the big armchair that I always compute from.

> No bad odors like burning smell.

Yeah, they don’t die like that.

> The only thing noticeable is their
> temperatures are hot after long usages.

I don’t use them that long, just copy the movies on to them.

>>> Some are detected but no disk volumes seen and
>>> can't even partition and format. Some seen and
>>> connected, but can't been fully formatted.

>>> What's up?

>> Either bad luck or the way you are treating them static wise.

>> The kids don't do anything special with them static wise
>> and the houses are all carpeted, 3 different houses. And
>> at least one of them has full aircon used in the winter for
>> heating which can be a static problem. One other has gas
>> heating and I forget what the third one has heating wise.
>> I've only been in there in other than the winter, moving
>> some heavy furniture in there.

> No carpets here, but a few rugs. Mostly hard floors (never dropped
> them). Temperatures can be hot (up to 90F degrees in the room during
> heat waves). The two drives that went bust was during the cold and wet
> temperatures (60F degrees and light rain outside; 70F degres indoor).

Should be fine.

>>> lots of physically moving around, etc.?

>> These get plenty of that, usually in cars but not always.

> Most of the times, the tiny drives are in my wallets to be carried
> where-ever I go. They don't move around much in the crowded
> tight wallet in my front pockets. That should be OK, right?

Yep. Shouldn’t even be a static problem with a plastic wallet either.

> I have seen people put them on their keychains and appear to be
> more abusive since they hit desks. tables, etc. but they still work.

Yeah, and they are pretty mechanically robust.

>>> Is Lexar brand any good as shown in
>>> http://www.salescircular.com/ca/computer/usbstp.shtml web page
>>> from the local So(uthern) CA(lifornia) stores (Fry's Electronics, Best
>>> Buy, Costco, Walmart, Target, Office Depot, Staples, etc.).

>> Yes, some of the ones I use are Lexars.

> Hmm, I might try Lexars next. Or maybe well known brands
> won't metter to me since Sandisk failed for me in the past. :/

I do have some sandisks, but the problem with sandisks is that
there are some fakes around too. Not that likely to be your
problem tho given that you don’t buy off ebay or aliexpress.

>>> Of course they must be returnable if the drives
>>> die quickly again within return times. :P

>>> Thank you in advance. :)

>> Still smirking.

> I will always smirk. ;)

Yep, you've always been a smirky little bugger. 

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    Re: Is it me or are there many unreliable USB flash drives? ANTant@zimage.com (Ant) - 2016-10-18 16:27 -0500
  Re: Is it me or are there many unreliable USB flash drives? Doc O'Leary  <droleary@2015usenet1.subsume.com> - 2016-10-18 15:23 +0000
    Re: Is it me or are there many unreliable USB flash drives? "Happy.Hobo" <Happy.Hobo@Spam.Invalid> - 2016-10-18 12:13 -0500
      Re: Is it me or are there many unreliable USB flash drives? ANTant@zimage.com (Ant) - 2016-10-18 16:28 -0500
        Re: Is it me or are there many unreliable USB flash drives? "Happy.Hobo" <Happy.Hobo@Spam.Invalid> - 2016-10-19 00:15 -0500
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        Re: Is it me or are there many unreliable USB flash drives? ANTant@zimage.com (Ant) - 2016-10-18 16:51 -0500
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                Re: Is it me or are there many unreliable USB flash drives? ANTant@zimage.com (Ant) - 2016-10-19 17:42 -0500
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      Re: Is it me or are there many unreliable USB flash drives? ANTant@zimage.com (Ant) - 2016-10-18 16:32 -0500
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          Re: Is it me or are there many unreliable USB flash drives? ANTant@zimage.com (Ant) - 2016-10-19 17:50 -0500
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                Re: Is it me or are there many unreliable USB flash drives? "Happy.Hobo" <Happy.Hobo@Spam.Invalid> - 2016-10-26 13:59 -0500
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                Re: Is it me or are there many unreliable USB flash drives? not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2016-10-22 21:22 +0000
                Re: Is it me or are there many unreliable USB flash drives? "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2016-10-24 11:43 +1100
                Re: Is it me or are there many unreliable USB flash drives? not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2016-10-24 01:31 +0000
                Re: Is it me or are there many unreliable USB flash drives? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2016-10-23 22:03 -0400
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                Re: Is it me or are there many unreliable USB flash drives? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2016-10-23 20:53 -0400
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                Re: Is it me or are there many unreliable USB flash drives? ANTant@zimage.com (Ant) - 2016-10-24 23:00 -0500
                Re: Is it me or are there many unreliable USB flash drives? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2016-10-25 00:10 -0400
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                Re: Is it me or are there many unreliable USB flash drives? "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2016-10-22 10:05 +1100
                Re: Is it me or are there many unreliable USB flash drives? "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2016-10-22 10:03 +1100
  Re: Is it me or are there many unreliable USB flash drives? "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2016-10-19 05:09 +1100
    Re: Is it me or are there many unreliable USB flash drives? ANTant@zimage.com (Ant) - 2016-10-18 16:48 -0500
      Re: Is it me or are there many unreliable USB flash drives? Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2016-10-19 13:32 +1300
        Re: Is it me or are there many unreliable USB flash drives? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2016-10-18 20:41 -0400
      Re: Is it me or are there many unreliable USB flash drives? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2016-10-19 00:38 +0000
        Re: Is it me or are there many unreliable USB flash drives? ANTant@zimage.com (Ant) - 2016-10-18 21:30 -0500
          Re: Is it me or are there many unreliable USB flash drives? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2016-10-19 15:50 +0000
            Re: Is it me or are there many unreliable USB flash drives? "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2016-10-20 05:01 +1100
        Re: Is it me or are there many unreliable USB flash drives? "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2016-10-19 16:08 +1100
      Re: Is it me or are there many unreliable USB flash drives? "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2016-10-19 16:02 +1100
        Re: Is it me or are there many unreliable USB flash drives? ANTant@zimage.com (Ant) - 2016-10-19 18:10 -0500
          Re: Is it me or are there many unreliable USB flash drives? "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2016-10-20 16:01 +1100
  Re: Is it me or are there many unreliable USB flash drives? Ed Light <nobody@nobody.there> - 2016-10-24 16:11 -0700
    Re: Is it me or are there many unreliable USB flash drives? ANTant@zimage.com (Ant) - 2016-10-24 23:01 -0500
  Re: Is it me or are there many unreliable USB flash drives? Ed Light <nobody@nobody.there> - 2016-10-24 16:16 -0700
  Re: Is it me or are there many unreliable USB flash drives? Ed Light <nobody@nobody.there> - 2016-10-24 16:19 -0700
    Re: Is it me or are there many unreliable USB flash drives? ANTant@zimage.com (Ant) - 2016-10-24 23:02 -0500
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