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Over the past year or so, I have had an alarmingly high number of USB flash drives fail into "read only" mode. Something like six or more. These varied from cheap Chinese eBay stuff to name brands pretty much equally. So, I got to thinking: How many have failed on me over the last decade or so. Practically none that I can recall. What has changed in manufacture or design that might account for this or is it just coincidental.
I did a search using Startpage, and Duck Duck Go, and didn't find anything that might validate my observations. Please tell me, am I imagining this or is it a real phenomenon? Have any of you noticed increased failure rates of USB flash drives.
There is a motivation to try to get users to migrate from external storage to the cloud. I'm not comfortable with that. I'm strictly VFR. No clouds, low, and slow.
Thanks for any insights you might choose to offer.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 31 2019, @05:18PM (1 child)
In the end, you have to store them somewhere. And for backups, it is a good idea if that somewhere is offline when not currently doing a backup or restore.
Well, I still prefer spinning rust for that purpose, but the idea of using Flash drives is not that far-fetched.
Moreover, you might have a computer that you intentionally don't connect to the network. In that case, USB sticks are the easiest way to transfer data from/to that computer.
(Score: 1) by doke on Thursday January 31 2019, @06:43PM
USB thumb drives are good way to keep important documents in a safe deposit box.