[Shop-talk] OT flash drives

[John Innis]

One thing that often works for us is to freeze the drive (if it has a cold
solder join this will often keep it working long enough to get the data
off.  If that doesn't work you can try baking it.  Less common, but
sometime the post coat the manufactures use one these is sensitive to
humidity.  Baking them in a 250 degree oven for a couple hours might dry it
out enough to work.

On Thu, Mar 12, 2020 at 7:26 AM Tim . via Shop-talk <
shop-talk at autox.team.net> wrote:

> Sending this inquiry to you all since I know there are more than a few IT
> guys in this group.....
>
> I bought three 512GB flash drives for archiving here at work. One locked
> up in each of our offices and one for me to add to files as necessary as
> files are amended. They have approximately 450GB on them.
>
> One of the three failed as soon as I finished filling it. I bought a
> different brand and made a replacement copy for the safe in our Madison
> office. A second, the same brand as the first one that failed is locked up
> in our MKE office and will also be replaced now because the third one (the
> one that has amended archived files) is also failing. I am having a hard
> time retrieving the amended files before this drive takes a final crap on
> me. It took over 15 hours to pull one 87MB file from the dying drive. I
> can't even attempt to pull more than one file at a time. Not that this
> should matter, but the files are mixed word, pdf, saved outlook emails and
> miscellaneous audio or video files and possibly other items.
>
> What I am wondering/hoping is that someone might know of a solution to
> this nearly impossible retrieval process. Or am I just screwed here?
>
> Next year we will be storing everything in the cloud so I won't have to
> deal with this PITA process.
>
> Thanks
> tim
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