In article ,
lid says...

On Sat, 2 Dec 2017 05:55:47 +0000, "J. P. Gilliver (John)"
wrote:

In message , Char Jackson
writes:

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where-as with flashdrives and hard disks it tends to be an all
or nothing affair with limited number of attempts.
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I have a large-ish Ziploc bag of them, some going back to about 2002
that were handed out by people (vendors) who wanted my help to get their

Those (1G or 2G - or possibly even smaller) are probably quite reliable.
(See Paul's past posts [Ppp!] for why - bits per cell.)

stuff into the corporate network. Someday I should use or write a
program that just writes data in a loop until they die.

Why destroy them deliberately?

Because the past 15 years tells me that I have no use for them, (they're
way too small for anything practical by today's standards), and I think
it would be interesting to see the failure modes. Until then, they just
stay in the bag, serving no purpose. I do have 3 64GB flash drives and a
128GB that I use on a regular basis, but the others are too small to be
practical. There are a smattering of 128MB and 256MB, then it goes up
(slightly!) from there to 1GB and 2GB. I didn't buy any of the small
ones; they were all freebies from potential vendors. The only ones I
bought were the 4 bigger ones.

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My server here has 40TB of internal storage, about 38TB usable after
formatting, and I have it configured as a single volume. It would be
nice to bump that to at least 80TB so that I'd have some breathing room.
I have a stack of 10 2TB drives that I've pulled out of a second PC, but
what can a person do with such small drives these days? Not much, so
they stay stacked in a drawer for now.

You're either winding me up, or you have _very_ different requirements
than I! I've never had a drive as big as 2T. What _do_ you handle that
takes all that space (-:?

The biggest offender is video, as you'd imagine, but there's a lot of
work product, as well. There's only a few TB's still available, so
unless I grow the farm I'll have to let some stuff go.

And here I am asking friends etc. if they have any small flashdrives, 4
gb or less. Need one that's accepted by an Xbox so can softmod it.
Sandisk Cruzer 4Gb would be great. Anyone have one they want to part
with