USB Death
I don’t really know what they are called these days, usb drives, flash drives, usb keys, pen drives. I don’t know if many still use them. Anyhow the first usb drive I ever bought has bit the dust. It was a whopping 8mb purchased mid 2002 with my laptop I bought for college. I think it was like $50 at the time, which was a little high. The company I think who made it is dead or switched from usb technology to general consulting.
I was going through my bag, and pulled out my usb drive case, and there it was. The usb plug and the chip had came off from the casing, and looked like it had been like that for a while. I went ahead and plugged it in to see what would happen.
The drive was found by XP, but all the files were corrupted. On top of that, in the minute it was plugged in, it got hotter than I could imagine. If I was in dire need, I could probably reformat the drive and use some super glue.
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