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Can I declare this USB Flash Drive Dead?

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Yeah... especially it still deletes weirdly... Bye Bye TransMemory, you are unworthy of USB 3.0 badge anyway.

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So I have a Toshiba TransMemory 32GB USB 3.0 Flash Drive which had a bit problem yesterday (drive stopped responding when deleting files). So, I unplugged it and plugged it back in, it was detected but not responsive (no capacity etc), not until 2-3 minutes later. After regain access I done a chkdsk and moved all files out, then done a full format (without fast formatting). File system is NTFS.

 

But now it seems not working properly, the transfer speed bunces up and down form 12MB/s to 5MB/s to even 0 when transfer a large movie file (14G). Average response time jumps around as well from 43 ms to 550 ms to 1000+ms

 

I also tested with Crystal Disk Mark, it reported good read speed (100MB/s +) but very poor write speed (it wasn't good when its new) 

 

I guess I probably should toss it? It was free gift from a conference anyway, and I have several better drives laying around.

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Just throw it away. If it suddenly dies you will lose whatever you put on it. Its not worth potentially losing data on something that doesnt cost alot to replace.

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I treat flash drives as disposable. That one isn't worth trusting, just bin it.

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Yeah... especially it still deletes weirdly... Bye Bye TransMemory, you are unworthy of USB 3.0 badge anyway.

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