On Fri, Dec 31, 2021 at 9:10 AM Robert Moskowitz <rgm(a)htt-consult.com> wrote:
On 12/31/21 00:22, Chris Murphy wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 22, 2021 at 2:03 PM Robert Moskowitz <rgm(a)htt-consult.com> wrote:
>> so something killed it and since tomorrow is garbage day...
>>
>> Sigh. that was a good $8 down the drain.
> Return it. Don't let people steal from you. Used a credit card? Report
> it. Do a charge back. You have 60 days from the date the statement
> containing the charge was mailed to you. If it's after 60 days, card
> might have an extended warranty on everything, give that a shot.
It has been sitting in my "backed up" bin for over a year. I backed up
something to it and now it is dead.
Typically I back up something important with a double backup, like tax
records, so I doubt I really lost anything, but it is way past
warranty. Sigh.
It is from Microcomputer Center over in Troy MI. They have these bins
of USB sticks very low price. No packaging, just take a couple out of
the bin at check out. I got a Dec present from them in a free 128GB
stick and bought 4 16GB for $5 each while I was restocking my DVD blanks
(stack of 500 Verbatim DVDs). They are a good place to pick up stuff
after a run to Costco; just a couple miles up the road. :)
Yeah there's a Microcomputer Center near me. I sooner suspect it's
just a bad luck defect rather than fake flash. But also, some flash
out there will lose data when on the shelf too long.
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Chris Murphy