Recent content by Roger Dahl

With 4 broken ones, maybe it's possible to find some statistical correlations. Could you list the brand names, models, purchase year, storage size, usage scenario (frequency of write and read operations, filesystems used, applications used) and which hosts and operating systems the flash drives...

Not a solution, just some thoughts... USB flash drives use the USB mass storage device class (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB_mass-storage_device_class). This is a higher level protocol than raw device access. Apparently, the standard allows for a number of different protocols but in practice...