RE: Read-only flash drives

-----Original Message-----
From: Tim via users 
Sent: Thursday, November 26, 2020 10:40 AM
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Cc: Tim 
Subject: Re: Read-only flash drives

On Thu, 2020-11-26 at 07:36 +0000, J.Witvliet--- via users wrote:
> Once in a while we come across thumb-drives, that after using a couple
> of times, can’t even be reformatted.

Some people leave them plugged in all the time, and although they think only that they're using them occasionally, they're getting warm from whatever their computer was doing in the background.

I view thumb drives as some temporary media for sneakernetting, I'd never rely on them for storage.

But, I wonder, those having trouble with them:  Are they buying the cheap and nasty ones?
-----Original Message-----

Not intended to steal the thread,
But do you consider "Kingston DT50, 16GB USB3" cheap & nasty?
We use them as boot-device, filling them with a image with "dd"
Upto now, we considered them bricked, and threw them away. Next time I'll ask to keep them for further analysis.

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