Doomsdrzej wrote:
On Mon, 21 May 2018 17:23:41 -0300, pjp
wrote:

In article , lid
says...
On Thu, 17 May 2018 07:49:55 +1000, Peter Jason wrote:

Do these thumb drives last forever, or should
their contents be transferred to the latest USB
drives?
I can only speak from personal experience. I've got several thumb
drives, all from SanDisk.

- 512MB Cruzer Micro
- 4GB Cruzer Titanium
- 16GB Cruzer Contour
- 64GB Extreme (USB 3.0)
- 128GB Extreme Pro (USB 3.0)

I ordered the 64GB and 128GB drives from a shop in Hong Kong (through
eBay).

The 64GB drive is used /all the time/. I transfer MKV files to it, watch
them on my BluRay disc player and then I delete them. I've been doing
that for years now. Never an error. On a rare occasion, the MKV freezes
when playing, but that could also be caused by the file itself or the
disc player. Rebooting the disc player always solves the problem.

I once bought a (supposedly) 4GB flash drive from DaneElec. Never got it
to work properly and it certainly wasn't 4GB.
Bought 5 Duracell branded 64Gb flashdrives. Three of them have gone into
"write protected" mode and can't do anything but read the corrupted data
(some of it) that you can view a listing for.

Duracell has no business producing USB drives.

Duracell is a trademark you can "buy" and slap on stuff.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duracell

"Duracell entered into a brand licensing agreement with flash memory
manufacturer Dane-Elec in 2008 for a line of products including
memory cards, hard drives and USB flash drives with the Duracell
brand mark and in the brand's trademark "copper top" coloring."

So Duracell wouldn't know anything about those particular sticks.

And Dane-Elec could be buying Shanghi Surprise sticks and putting
the Duracell name on them. It's not like Duracell gets a say in
whether rubbish has their branding on it.

Just as you can find "General Electric", or "Westinghouse" products,
which neither company knows anything about.

Paul