[Shop-talk] OT flash drives

[Tim .]

Thanks for the replies all.

A few of my own:

freeze the drive—probably try this.

baking it—it’s coated in rubber so probably not a good idea.

One Drive or Google Drive—We will be in totally in the cloud once our new case management system is done being built.

Flash drives or spinning hard drives—as the title of the post says: “Flash drives”

A USB portable hard drive should be much more reliable—this is what I wanted to do/use but management told me to get flash drives.

John Innis—great reply thanks. I’ll pass this one to the idiots…er…I mean management.

Al Fuller—I’ll pass your info along if I am not able to access this drive after freezing it.

Thanks again.
tim

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Subject: [Shop-talk] OT flash drives

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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