Question Problems with Team Group USB flash drives ?

[Tac 25]

hi, I was not willing to go to the mall, because crowded due to the holidays. So instead of buying from the store at the mall where I buy reliable flash drives... I purchased instead from a small store near our office. It's a flash drive brand I've never seen before, Team Group is the name. Warranty I signed is 1 week.

So I filled up the four flash drives with recorded gaming videos. All went well, until after a month.. two of the usb drives started failing, files getting corrupted for no reason. And by "no reason" I mean just copying videos on them, it's regular use, nothing more. The flash drives I purchased at the mall never get corrupted like this.

anyway, my latest problem is the pc makes a sound when you plug in the flash drive, so I think it's detected. However, it does not show up in Devices and Drives.. cannot view files on it or format it.

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However, it does show up in Device Manager, and weirdly enough.. windows 10 says the device is working properly.

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any method I could format this or view files?

not buying this brand of usb again.

 

[USAFRet]

The "1 week warranty" should have been a red flag.

What is the supposed capacity of these drives?

 

[Tac 25]

the flash drives I buy from the mall also have a 1 week warranty of exchange / refund, if something goes wrong within a week. As long as I keep the receipt. However, none of them failed. I guess Sandisk is simply a good brand, have more than thirty of them, and none have given me an error in two or three years of use already.

now, these Team Group brand, I only have 4 of these and 2 have failed already in a span of approx 1 month. Bad brand that I won't be buying again.
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the size of the failing USB is 32 GB.

 

[Tac 25]

btw, this is one of the failing USB sticks:

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