| waldo323 | good morning | 14:02 |
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| cmaloney | Howdy | 14:03 |
| waldo323 | i have a usb flash drive that seems to not like to get written to...have you had (m)any which didn't work when you got them? | 14:17 |
| cmaloney | Out of the box? | 14:35 |
| waldo323 | pretty much | 14:49 |
| waldo323 | I bought it Sunday | 14:49 |
| cmaloney | What sort of errors is it giving? | 14:51 |
| waldo323 | input output errors | 14:53 |
| waldo323 | tried reformatting with gparted and it failed as well | 14:53 |
| cmaloney | Take it back and get another one | 14:56 |
| waldo323 | yeah great idea, will have to wait till tomorrow | 15:26 |
| waldo323 | also brb | 15:26 |
| Scary_Guy | what brand? | 16:08 |
| brousch | waldo323: Does it have a secret read/write switch on it? I've run into those | 18:54 |
| cmaloney | I've only run into those on SD cards, not USB keys. Are they present on USB keys too? | 18:56 |
| waldo323 | no switch present | 19:15 |
| waldo323 | it was one of the retractable cruzers | 19:15 |
| waldo323 | during my lunch, costco let me return it :) | 19:16 |
| waldo323 | i got another and it works well so far | 19:16 |
| cmaloney | Cool. | 19:16 |
| cmaloney | Yeah, if it isn't allowing you to write then the liklihood that the SSD is borked and trying to error correct is high | 19:17 |
| waldo323 | it was getting really warm too | 19:19 |
| Scary_Guy | weird, usually if it gets really warm I'll open it up and glue a heatsync on it | 19:37 |
| waldo323 | brand new and it wouldn't let me write to it so I was happy to return it | 19:37 |
| Scary_Guy | works well for power adapters too, though I usually leave them encased and just watch them so they don't explode | 19:37 |
| Scary_Guy | yeah, it happens sometimes. you'd think they'd plug them into a machine before it leaves the factory to check that | 19:38 |
| Scary_Guy | the error rate is probably low enough though that they don't bother and just deal with returns | 19:38 |
| waldo323 | i have at least 2 others of the same type/size and gave one away as well...all of those work well | 19:39 |
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