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shardian:
Tonight marks the third thumb drive I have had die on me. The first was in college - I was working on a powerpoint presentation that I was about to give. Right before me and my partner were to go up and present, the file corrupted on the drive. That sucked.
The second had a SM chip fall of the board which I noticed after taking the case off.
This last one just died as I plugged it into my laptop to do some work!
I did some research online and some flash drives are only designed for 10,000 read/writes!!!!! That is totally unacceptible!

I was able to use a recovery tool to get most of the stuff off the drive luckily.

So how do the rest of you guys fare with thumb drives?

crashwg:
Are you using the "safely remove hardware" feature before disconnecting the drive?
I heard that it was important although I don't have any personal experience to say one way or the other.

Samstag:
Some operating systems will definitely eat your data if you don't "safely remove" it.  Windows 98/2000 in particular will corrupt your data if you aren't careful.  I think various flavors of Linux may do the same if you don't unmount or sync the drive before removing it.  It's not just thumb drives.  Any USB drive is subject to corruption if you pull it before the OS is done with it, and sometimes the OS isn't done with it even if it appears to be.

FrizzleFried:
I've had once thumb drive for the last 6 years or more...

...of course i've probably written/read from it less than 100 times total.

shardian:
I always use safely remove thumb drive. That bad boy isn't touched until the light goes off. I also don't keep active files on the drive - I offload to edit, then load it back on when time to transport as is the recommended procedure. I take mine with me everywhere. Into my work computer in the morning, into my laptop in the evening.

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