Does losing them count as a failure? If so, a lot have failed on me.
If not, never had one outright fail. At most, I've had a USB slow down transfer speeds once. But, I could still get all of my data off of it.
Has a USB memory stick ever failed on you?
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#12We had dozens fail.
Than again, I worked on developing embedded USB stacks. Those guys suffered quite a workload (but nothing astronomical).
Mainly: Random data corruption (~90%) Electrical failure - not responding to reset or power-on (~10%)
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#13I've had a few break in the sense of wires/chips physically losing a proper connection, but that's a matter of holding it just so while you get your data off. Nothing worse yet.
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#14So far over the last 5 years I've never had a USB stick drive fail.
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#15I've never had one fail. I've even sent one through the washer and dryer. Its casing fell off, but wedging the bare circuit board into the USB port still worked.
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#16I still have and use my first $49 256mb sandisk. Never had any issues. I now use a 8g U3 sandisk daily for 100% of my tasks. I live on portable apps.
The closest thing to an issue is I have noticed the total storage size has decreased a tiny bit, but this is supposed to be normal. After all with my email client alone I am doing 1000's of overrights and stuff.
Another thing is to always remember to eject the device properly. I have had corruption of files that way, but never any damage to the drive. I backup weekly.
Flash drives are a god send. I cant imagine carrying around compact disks anymore.
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#17Yes had a one gb fail.
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#18I still have and use my first $49 256mb sandisk. Never had any issues. I now use a 8g U3 sandisk daily for 100% of my tasks. I live on portable apps. The closest thing to an issue is I have noticed the total storage size has decreased a tiny bit, but this is supposed to be normal. After all with my email client alone I am doing 1000's of overrights and stuff. Another thing is to always remember to eject the device pr…
...also, I own 10 various brands and sizes of flash drives, all work perfect.
Re: Has a USB memory stick ever failed on you?
#19Plenty of them. One startup I worked at had hundreds of cluster machines booting from USB drives. I'd say one or two failed every month. They were Kingston brand, too. But they got a lot of use (read and write) and there were literally hundreds of them going at a time.
It goes without saying: back up your data. Never trust your data to be stored in just one location.
Mode of failure varied, but it usually manifested itself in the form of a corrupt filesystem. A few wouldn't even show up as a device when plugged in.
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