[14:02] <waldo323> good morning
[14:03] <cmaloney> Howdy
[14:17] <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?
[14:35] <cmaloney> Out of the box?
[14:49] <waldo323> pretty much
[14:49] <waldo323> I bought it Sunday
[14:51] <cmaloney> What sort of errors is it giving?
[14:53] <waldo323> input output errors
[14:53] <waldo323> tried reformatting with gparted and it failed as well
[14:56] <cmaloney> Take it back and get another one
[15:26] <waldo323> yeah great idea, will have to wait till tomorrow
[15:26] <waldo323> also brb
[16:08] <Scary_Guy> what brand?
[18:54] <brousch> waldo323: Does it have a secret read/write switch on it? I've run into those
[18:56] <cmaloney> I've only run into those on SD cards, not USB keys. Are they present on USB keys too?
[19:15] <waldo323> no switch present
[19:15] <waldo323> it was one of the retractable cruzers
[19:16] <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.
[19:17] <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
[19:19] <waldo323> it was getting really warm too
[19:37] <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
[19:38] <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
[19:39] <waldo323> i have at least 2 others of the same type/size and gave one away as well...all of those work well