Silicon Power 32 GB USB flash drive gets hot and has speed problems?

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Does anyone know if there is a good USB flash drive checker that does
more than Mac OS X's Disk Utility verifications and repairs? Maybe
surface scans or something?

flash drives don't have surfaces to scan

In article , Ant
wrote:

Does anyone know if there is a good USB flash drive checker that does
more than Mac OS X's Disk Utility verifications and repairs? Maybe
surface scans or something?

There is no "surface" in a flash drive - it's basically RAM chips, same
as an Solid State Drive (SSD). Any real problems would be normally be
picked up and / or fixed when formatting the drive.

Potentially, but unlikely, there could be a faulty / loose RAM chip. If
it was intermittent, then it could pass the formatting tests and cause
problems when copying large files.

It could be a faulty / worn USB socket or plug. Or, if you have other
USB devices plugged in, flash drive may not be getting enough power.

Of course, the USB flash drive may be fine, and it's the other drive
with issues.

Does anyone know if there is a good USB flash drive checker that does
more than Mac OS X's Disk Utility verifications and repairs? Maybe
surface scans or something?

There is no "surface" in a flash drive - it's basically RAM chips, same
as an Solid State Drive (SSD). Any real problems would be normally be
picked up and / or fixed when formatting the drive.

Potentially, but unlikely, there could be a faulty / loose RAM chip. If
it was intermittent, then it could pass the formatting tests and cause
problems when copying large files.

It could be a faulty / worn USB socket or plug. Or, if you have other
USB devices plugged in, flash drive may not be getting enough power.

Of course, the USB flash drive may be fine, and it's the other drive
with issues.

Hmm, or that Flash drive is the problem if multiple USB ports and other
MacBook Pros. Maybe I should try doing the same with FAT32 and NTFS with
Windows machines.
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Does anyone know if there is a good USB flash drive checker that does
more than Mac OS X's Disk Utility verifications and repairs? Maybe
surface scans or something?

flash drives don't have surfaces to scan

So, memtest86 type to test?
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On 10/03/2015 10:40 AM, Ant wrote:
Does anyone know if there is a good USB flash drive checker that does
more than Mac OS X's Disk Utility verifications and repairs? Maybe
surface scans or something?

flash drives don't have surfaces to scan

So, memtest86 type to test?

One thing that was rumored to break SSDs are many small isolated writes,
or flushing after every few bytes. To my knowledge Mac OS never did much
flushing even if you asked it too (theres a video `Eat my Data').
Thus I doubt that's the problem. It might bite you if you
unplug without unmounting.

One thing I've observed on this (Linux)box, is a defective-by-design
DVB stick bringing down the usb interfaces (all of them).
I'd lose data on the attached usb Hdd.

Another possibility might be a powersupply going bad, or transients from you
utility company.(I heard they have less stringent requirements in the US)

In comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage Ant wrote:
Does anyone know if there is a good USB flash drive checker that does
more than Mac OS X's Disk Utility verifications and repairs? Maybe
surface scans or something?

flash drives don't have surfaces to scan

So, memtest86 type to test?

There's a fairly well written program for Windows that does that.
Can't remember the name and I had some trouble finding it, but
it's on my Windows machine, so I'll try to post from there later.

Often used for finding fake USB sticks, though the fake/dodgy stick
I installed it for was so broken that it hung the program until it
was unpluged, same with trying to access files. Linux was a bit less
touchy about it.

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On 04 Oct 2015, Computer Nerd Kev wrote:

In comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage Ant
wrote:
Does anyone know if there is a good USB flash drive
checker that does more than Mac OS X's Disk Utility
verifications and repairs? Maybe surface scans or
something?

flash drives don't have surfaces to scan

So, memtest86 type to test?

There's a fairly well written program for Windows that does
that. Can't remember the name and I had some trouble
finding it, but it's on my Windows machine, so I'll try to
post from there later.

USB Flash Drive Tester:
http://www.vconsole.com/client/?page=page&id=13

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Computer Nerd Kev wrote
Computer Nerd Kev wrote
Ant wrote

Does anyone know if there is a good USB flash drive
checker that does more than Mac OS X's Disk Utility
verifications and repairs? Maybe surface scans or
something?

flash drives don't have surfaces to scan

So, memtest86 type to test?

There's a fairly well written program for Windows that does
that. Can't remember the name and I had some trouble
finding it, but it's on my Windows machine, so I'll try to
post from there later.

USB Flash Drive Tester:
http://www.vconsole.com/client/?page=page&id=13

Very decent little ute.

Pity about the truly memorable name |-(

Some speed data would be useful tho.

Does anyone know if there is a good USB flash drive
checker that does more than Mac OS X's Disk Utility
verifications and repairs? Maybe surface scans or
something?

flash drives don't have surfaces to scan

So, memtest86 type to test?

There's a fairly well written program for Windows that does
that. Can't remember the name and I had some trouble
finding it, but it's on my Windows machine, so I'll try to
post from there later.

USB Flash Drive Tester:
http://www.vconsole.com/client/?page=page&id=13

Bummer, none for Linux and Mac OS X OSes. I hope I can use it in Windows
VMs.
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Does anyone know if there is a good USB flash drive
checker that does more than Mac OS X's Disk Utility
verifications and repairs? Maybe surface scans or
something?

flash drives don't have surfaces to scan

So, memtest86 type to test?

There's a fairly well written program for Windows that does
that. Can't remember the name and I had some trouble
finding it, but it's on my Windows machine, so I'll try to
post from there later.

USB Flash Drive Tester:
http://www.vconsole.com/client/?page=page&id=13

I ran it on the problematic USB flash stick for about twelve/12 hours in
a very old, updated Windows XP Pro SP3. No problems. It had to format
and use its own file system(?).
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