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Those free USB sticks in your drawer are somehow crappier than you thought (arstechnica.com)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

The flashdrive in case was a random merchandise gift thing. It worked previously and was just the first one in the drawer.

But yeah in the future I will defintly get something better.

Also I did learn how to directly read and write Chips on the mainboard so the time spent wasn't totally wasted.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

Oof. Honestly I do the same thing and I think your experience just convinced me not to. I keep a couple of those junk vendor USB's just for things like BIOS updates since the capacity is usually small. I hadn't considered one failing right in the middle of an update.