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USB Flash Drive Tester
Ant wrote:
Stop purchasing crappy cheap-o USB flash sticks. ; ) Actually, it was free from Vizio. I guess they used cheap stuff! :/ Free = cheap-o... -- E-mail sent to this address may be devoured by my ravenous SPAM filter. I often ignore posts from Google. Use a real news client instead. JR |
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USB Flash Drive Tester
In comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage Jolly Roger wrote:
Ant wrote: Stop purchasing crappy cheap-o USB flash sticks. ; ) Actually, it was free from Vizio. I guess they used cheap stuff! :/ Free = cheap-o... Yeah. -- Quote of the Week: "It is not enough to be busy, so are the ants. The question is: what are we busy about?" --Henry David Thoreau Note: A fixed width font (Courier, Monospace, etc.) is required to see this signature correctly. /\___/\ Ant(Dude) @ http://antfarm.home.dhs.org (Personal Web Site) / /\ /\ \ Ant's Quality Foraged Links: http://aqfl.net | |o o| | \ _ / Please nuke ANT if replying by e-mail privately. If credit- ( ) ing, then please kindly use Ant nickname and AQFL URL/link. |
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USB Flash Drive Tester
Ant wrote:
In comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage Jolly Roger wrote: Ant wrote: Stop purchasing crappy cheap-o USB flash sticks. ; ) Actually, it was free from Vizio. I guess they used cheap stuff! :/ Free = cheap-o... Yeah. So stop doing that. Problem solved. -- E-mail sent to this address may be devoured by my ravenous SPAM filter. I often ignore posts from Google. Use a real news client instead. JR |
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USB Flash Drive Tester
In comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage Ant wrote:
USB Flash Drive Tester: http://www.vconsole.com/client/?page=page&id=13 Is it me or is it gone now? Try clicking the Support Software link at the top of the web page. ; ) Ah, thanks! I think I have a somewhat new 2 GB USB flash drive that is getting corrupted FAT32 files and need to know if it is a bad drive or not. Mac OS X's Disk Utility and Windows' chkdsk tools had to repair them and found tons of corruptions. Stop purchasing crappy cheap-o USB flash sticks. ; ) Actually, it was free from Vizio. I guess they used cheap stuff! :/ Anyways, I found my local copy though. I ran its test and no problems. Weird. I formatted it and will try again later. FYI since I'm playing with it for curiousity and fun. I finally got results (e.g., multiple computers and their OSes not seeing the drive, Flash Drive/Card Tester v1.14 showing errors in its tests: http://pastebin.ca/3375304 ... I find it interesting that it is not always reproducable. Sometimes it is perfectly fine, but other times it is just bad. :/ -- Quote of the Week: "Yeah, what's left of it. I was in the militia -- national guard... That's good! Wasn't any war any more than there's war between men and ants." --stranger; "And we're eat-able ants. I found that out... What will they do with us?" --Pierson from H.G. Wells' The War of the Worlds Note: A fixed width font (Courier, Monospace, etc.) is required to see this signature correctly. /\___/\ Ant(Dude) @ http://antfarm.home.dhs.org (Personal Web Site) / /\ /\ \ Ant's Quality Foraged Links: http://aqfl.net | |o o| | \ _ / Please nuke ANT if replying by e-mail privately. If credit- ( ) ing, then please kindly use Ant nickname and AQFL URL/link. |
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Cheap USB flash drives -- (was USB Flash Drive Tester)
I think I have a somewhat new 2 GB USB flash
drive that is getting corrupted FAT32 files and need to know if it is a bad drive or not. Mac OS X's Disk Utility and Windows' chkdsk tools had to repair them and found tons of corruptions. Stop purchasing crappy cheap-o USB flash sticks. ; ) Actually, it was free from Vizio. I guess they used cheap stuff! :/ Anyways, I found my local copy though. I ran its test and no problems. Weird. I formatted it and will try again later. FYI since I'm playing with it for curiousity and fun. I finally got results (e.g., multiple computers and their OSes not seeing the drive, Flash Drive/Card Tester v1.14 showing errors in its tests: http://pastebin.ca/3375304 ... I find it interesting that it is not always reproducable. Sometimes it is perfectly fine, but other times it is just bad. :/ Oh, I forgot to mention these observations as well: 1. Wiggling it in USB ports makes the media go away. I checked the flash drive and it seems secured. Maybe the inside is lose? My other drives don't do this like my very old 128 MB Sandisk Cruzer drive. :P 2. On its cover cap, there is a tiny circular sticker showing CE(logo as shown in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CE_marking ) FCC(logo as shown in https://transition.fcc.gov/files/log...k-on-white.jpg ) RoHS (http://www.rohsguide.com/ ). China. No other interesting details like from Mac OS X v10.10.5 (Yosemite)'s system information's storage information (generic -- brand name or anything). Those sounds cheap, eh? Speaking of cheap, how does one know if they are quality cheap or good? Is there an easy way? For kicks, I e-mailed Vizio about it. They know nothing about it. Haha. -- Quote of the Week: "Yeah, what's left of it. I was in the militia -- national guard... That's good! Wasn't any war any more than there's war between men and ants." --stranger; "And we're eat-able ants. I found that out... What will they do with us?" --Pierson from H.G. Wells' The War of the Worlds Note: A fixed width font (Courier, Monospace, etc.) is required to see this signature correctly. /\___/\ Ant(Dude) @ http://antfarm.home.dhs.org (Personal Web Site) / /\ /\ \ Ant's Quality Foraged Links: http://aqfl.net | |o o| | \ _ / Please nuke ANT if replying by e-mail privately. If credit- ( ) ing, then please kindly use Ant nickname and AQFL URL/link. |
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Cheap USB flash drives -- (was USB Flash Drive Tester)
Ant wrote:
I think I have a somewhat new 2 GB USB flash drive that is getting corrupted FAT32 files and need to know if it is a bad drive or not. Mac OS X's Disk Utility and Windows' chkdsk tools had to repair them and found tons of corruptions. Stop purchasing crappy cheap-o USB flash sticks. ; ) Actually, it was free from Vizio. I guess they used cheap stuff! :/ Anyways, I found my local copy though. I ran its test and no problems. Weird. I formatted it and will try again later. FYI since I'm playing with it for curiousity and fun. I finally got results (e.g., multiple computers and their OSes not seeing the drive, Flash Drive/Card Tester v1.14 showing errors in its tests: http://pastebin.ca/3375304 ... I find it interesting that it is not always reproducable. Sometimes it is perfectly fine, but other times it is just bad. :/ Oh, I forgot to mention these observations as well: 1. Wiggling it in USB ports makes the media go away. I checked the flash drive and it seems secured. Maybe the inside is lose? My other drives don't do this like my very old 128 MB Sandisk Cruzer drive. :P 2. On its cover cap, there is a tiny circular sticker showing CE(logo as shown in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CE_marking ) FCC(logo as shown in https://transition.fcc.gov/files/log...k-on-white.jpg ) RoHS (http://www.rohsguide.com/ ). China. No other interesting details like from Mac OS X v10.10.5 (Yosemite)'s system information's storage information (generic -- brand name or anything). Those sounds cheap, eh? Speaking of cheap, how does one know if they are quality cheap or good? Is there an easy way? For kicks, I e-mailed Vizio about it. They know nothing about it. Haha. A quick web search for CFGear shows they are a cheap promotional flash drive supplier, advertising "put your own logo" flash products and often giving away samples for free. Is that not enough of a hint? ; ) -- E-mail sent to this address may be devoured by my ravenous SPAM filter. I often ignore posts from Google. Use a real news client instead. JR |
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Cheap USB flash drives -- (was USB Flash Drive Tester)
In comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage Jolly Roger wrote:
Stop purchasing crappy cheap-o USB flash sticks. ; ) Actually, it was free from Vizio. I guess they used cheap stuff! :/ Anyways, I found my local copy though. I ran its test and no problems. Weird. I formatted it and will try again later. FYI since I'm playing with it for curiousity and fun. I finally got results (e.g., multiple computers and their OSes not seeing the drive, Flash Drive/Card Tester v1.14 showing errors in its tests: http://pastebin.ca/3375304 ... I find it interesting that it is not always reproducable. Sometimes it is perfectly fine, but other times it is just bad. :/ Oh, I forgot to mention these observations as well: 1. Wiggling it in USB ports makes the media go away. I checked the flash drive and it seems secured. Maybe the inside is lose? My other drives don't do this like my very old 128 MB Sandisk Cruzer drive. :P 2. On its cover cap, there is a tiny circular sticker showing CE(logo as shown in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CE_marking ) FCC(logo as shown in https://transition.fcc.gov/files/log...k-on-white.jpg ) RoHS (http://www.rohsguide.com/ ). China. No other interesting details like from Mac OS X v10.10.5 (Yosemite)'s system information's storage information (generic -- brand name or anything). Those sounds cheap, eh? Speaking of cheap, how does one know if they are quality cheap or good? Is there an easy way? For kicks, I e-mailed Vizio about it. They know nothing about it. Haha. A quick web search for CFGear shows they are a cheap promotional flash drive supplier, advertising "put your own logo" flash products and often giving away samples for free. Is that not enough of a hint? ; ) Wait, how did you know it was from CFGear? -- Quote of the Week: "Yeah, what's left of it. I was in the militia -- national guard... That's good! Wasn't any war any more than there's war between men and ants." --stranger; "And we're eat-able ants. I found that out... What will they do with us?" --Pierson from H.G. Wells' The War of the Worlds Note: A fixed width font (Courier, Monospace, etc.) is required to see this signature correctly. /\___/\ Ant(Dude) @ http://antfarm.home.dhs.org (Personal Web Site) / /\ /\ \ Ant's Quality Foraged Links: http://aqfl.net | |o o| | \ _ / Please nuke ANT if replying by e-mail privately. If credit- ( ) ing, then please kindly use Ant nickname and AQFL URL/link. |
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Cheap USB flash drives -- (was USB Flash Drive Tester)
On 2016-02-20, Ant wrote:
VIZIO doesn't make flash drives as far as I can tell. So they probably job that out to cheap promotional companies. That would also explain why VIZIO told you they don't know anything about it. When purchasing a flash stick, it's best to stick to the name brand manufacturers like SanDisk and Kingston that are known for good quality. Thanks. I did have an old SanDisk 1 GB USB flash drive stopped working (computers didn't recognize the drive anymore). According to Amazon's reviews, many people had the same issue. That's worse than an unstable drive. At least unstable drive could let you see and access data, assuming not corrupted. I have a Kingston stick here that is years old and is still going strong. Note: I didn't say sticking with name brands means there will be zero issues ever. **** happens, but in general the name brands are more reliable and better quality. -- E-mail sent to this address may be devoured by my ravenous SPAM filter. I often ignore posts from Google. Use a real news client instead. JR |
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