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Sentenced to be burnt by USB
Bought a Crucial 128G USB flashdrive, possibly for what a 256G SDD now costs. Not that old, at least for me, but obviously not new. Four to five years' of usage is the guess. Now there's intermittent connection issues, repeatedly re-seating the drive until an access light goes from long durations of faults cycling a couple or more seconds, to short flashes 500ms or apart which are a normal indication to a successful read. Reformatting and refilling it, usually with a 32G - 64G (seldom beyond), I usually work with, is what's left. Which I haven't yet done on pessimistic suspicions, perhaps at some later point to attempt if current accesses worsen. Errors exhibited irrespective to two computers at four front USB ports, Crucial's drive connection would appear faulty;- or near, just had a brown-out and the flashdrive began cycling, physically undisturbed, into an error state after a BIOS auto/reboot. Half what I paid, maybe $15 for another 128G flashdrive replacement. That would nice. That was the Crucial name and purposeful at the time, for what its worth now in Crucial's failure/error cycles. Two USBSSD adapters (as low as $5ea.?) hanging off a USB port for a SSD to fill the function of a flashdrive is something that wasn't around when I bought the Crucial. Then again, though I'm not especially rough, I've yet to break a SSD interface through regular if not quite daily hot-swaps. Nice to know, I suppose, when occurring to be available for more pretty wires alternatively to dangle off USB ports. So far I've been real good at resisting the temptation to buy a USB toothbrush. |
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Sentenced to be burnt by USB
On 8/9/2020 8:54 AM, Flasherly wrote:
Bought a Crucial 128G USB flashdrive, possibly for what a 256G SDD now costs. Not that old, at least for me, but obviously not new. Four to five years' of usage is the guess. Now there's intermittent connection issues, repeatedly re-seating the drive until an access light goes from long durations of faults cycling a couple or more seconds, to short flashes 500ms or apart which are a normal indication to a successful read. USB 2.0 or USB 3 ports? Branded PC? What brand and model? Motherboard info? I suspect it's a power issue, not enough current in the port. -- @~@ Remain silent! Drink, Blink, Stretch! Live long and prosper!! / v \ Simplicity is Beauty! /( _ )\ May the Force and farces be with you! ^ ^ (x86_64 Ubuntu 9.10) Linux 2.6.39.3 ¤£*ɶU! ¤£¶BÄF! ¤£½ä¿ú! ¤£´©¥æ! ¤£¥´¥æ! ¤£¥´§T! ¤£¦Û±þ! ¤£¨D¯«! ½Ð¦Ò¼{ºî´© (CSSA): http://www.swd.gov.hk/tc/index/site_...sub_addressesa |
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Sentenced to be burnt by USB
On Wed, 9 Sep 2020 04:11:14 +0800, "Mr. Man-wai Chang"
wrote: USB 2.0 or USB 3 ports? Branded PC? What brand and model? Motherboard info? I suspect it's a power issue, not enough current in the port. That's an idea, although they're both the same Gigabyte MB, probably working great with other Flashsticks. At least I doubt I'd run into that issue with other than the Crucial brand flashstick. (I don't actually use my other flashsticks much anymore, although I'm often on the Crucial.) If that were the case a HUB and direct connect to MB headers might be indicated. There is one USB3 port, although seems I've noticed a couple people say, with my MB, they've burn out the controller for it. Flashsticks, some I hear, can get very hot pushing their limits at USB3 speeds. |
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Sentenced to be burnt by USB
On 9/9/2020 8:25 AM, Flasherly wrote:
That's an idea, although they're both the same Gigabyte MB, probably working great with other Flashsticks. At least I doubt I'd run into that issue with other than the Crucial brand flashstick. (I don't actually use my other flashsticks much anymore, although I'm often on the Crucial.) If that were the case a HUB and direct connect to MB headers might be indicated. There is one USB3 port, although seems I've noticed a couple people say, with my MB, they've burn out the controller for it. Flashsticks, some I hear, can get very hot pushing their limits at USB3 speeds. You can add a USB 3.0 PCIe adapter if you wish. But you might wanna consider a new motherboard. -- @~@ Remain silent! Drink, Blink, Stretch! Live long and prosper!! / v \ Simplicity is Beauty! /( _ )\ May the Force and farces be with you! ^ ^ (x86_64 Ubuntu 9.10) Linux 2.6.39.3 ¤£*ɶU! ¤£¶BÄF! ¤£½ä¿ú! ¤£´©¥æ! ¤£¥´¥æ! ¤£¥´§T! ¤£¦Û±þ! ¤£¨D¯«! ½Ð¦Ò¼{ºî´© (CSSA): http://www.swd.gov.hk/tc/index/site_...sub_addressesa |
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Sentenced to be burnt by USB
On Mon, 14 Sep 2020 00:53:46 +0800, "Mr. Man-wai Chang"
wrote: You can add a USB 3.0 PCIe adapter if you wish. But you might wanna consider a new motherboard. I've already have two PCI USB3 adapters. Never used them much other than to get them up and running. The thing about new MBs is they've all changed to cheap boards with one PCI slot, if that, maybe a smaller-factor PCI. Cheap boards, anyway. When I looked at them, not long ago, all were Chinese knock-offs, Socket AM3, and they didn't offhand say if there were drives;- probably generic chipsets of an auto-Windows XP install. I also have a PCI USB2 4-port array, a Matrox PCI videocard, and a couple PCI SATA controllers. Building a new system is now somewhat more complex and easily more expensive for other than Windows 7 or a UNIX operating system. ASUS, apparently, doesn't even blink and eye when pricing MBs @$300/US. .( |
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Sentenced to be burnt by USB
On Sun, 13 Sep 2020 16:40:03 -0400, Flasherly
wrote: There's also USB for a audio Mixer board, and a audio-amplifier _Fx Module_ that is for audio instruments, I often use for adding effects between the pre- and output amplifier stage on a couple of vacuum tube amplifiers. I've also needed USB latency devices for zeroing out any delays with a microphone/headphone combination, when singing or recording on top of prior sound recordings in a multi-track "MixDown", e.g. combined into the Mastered Session. But, yes, that could be an issue, as when plugging the _Fx Module_ into USB2, which supplies a dedicated program interface for controlling the module parameters (for reverb, compression, noise-gates, distortion, EQ, &etc). I usually to leave the USB cable plugged into the Fx module, and when it errors out, briefly to remove the Fx module's power brick, where plugging power back into the module then corrects the module identity problem, for the program to synch and identify from the USB signal firmware feed. It could be marginal USB signal strength, as you first suggested And a powered USB hub may be another approach also to try. |
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Sentenced to be burnt by USB
On Sun, 13 Sep 2020 17:38:28 -0400, Flasherly
wrote: another approach also to try. As well the available USB ports on the backplane interface riser, secondary direct-to-MB soldered USB interfaces, will have to be tested likewise for issues of congruity experienced for both the OEM cabling and PC-case supplied female front two USB sockets. It's a generic case I've been at more than once with various tin-snips and metal shears. Presently laying on its side, the top side cover is removed and the top side of the cage HDD cage's steel is also cut out with shears. I use the finest straightened paper-clip to screw down the HDDs onto, for proper distancing and precision HDD alignment. |
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