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USB Flash drive reliability statistics

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Where can I find reliability statistics on USB flash / thumb drives?
 
I personally never heard of any but check reviews out on each drive. They tend to tell you what each one looks like, I have never had a failed drive out of the 20+ I have owned. I still have some 64/128MB ones from early 2000 or something when 64/128MB was brand new.

I also think I did even have a 16MB one around somewhere lol. Never had a drive fail on me and mine get good easy from chewing on them, dropping, transferring a lot, and so on.
 
It seems flash drives if they work will work for a long time unless you abuse it. If they go bad they go bad fast. I am not exactly sure about this but my intel motherboard destroys some USB devices. I say that because I have lost over a dozen USB card readers of all makes. I got a PNY Turbo 128GB USB 3.0 Flash Drive to see if it would destroy that one and after a few hours went bad as well. But I use external drives for backup and none of those were affected. The card readers I know were working for months in other computers or my car stereos without problems before. So I don't know what the deal is with the USB ports but there does exist some kind of problem that I was unable to find anything about. As it is just a simple port and the voltages are controlled, I have no idea.. I have used kingston and sandisk usb sticks for years without problems though.

It IS very strange.. So strange that you question your knowledge.. But I cant dismiss more than 15 devices that went bad but another 15 that works for years. Easy to dismiss the port itself but then why did those very same devices work for years in other ports and other computers.. If it was not an intel board I would put the blame on cheap Chinese manufacturers.. We pay more for something like Intel so we wont be burdened with problems such as this.

This is such a weird problem that there is an extra factor that is becoming your main point of failure and that is the kind of motherboard you have. After a decade of not having any compatibility problems, Now there is a major problem where expensive devices can be destroyed by something that should be the safest part of your system. Trying to debug this except by the device makers themselves would be pointless. Intel would of course deny anything is wrong.
 
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