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What are the chances of a USB drive being damaged by static
electricity if someone put it in a ziploc drive?
electricity if someone put it in a ziploc drive?
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John Larkin
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On Fri, 13 Jun 2008 07:27:28 -0700 (PDT),
curious.no.spam.com@gmail.com wrote:
John
curious.no.spam.com@gmail.com wrote:
Zero. These things are designed to be handled.What are the chances of a USB drive being damaged by static
electricity if someone put it in a ziploc drive?
John
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Bill Bowden
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On Jun 14, 3:23 pm, "ian field" <dai....@ntlworld.com> wrote:
concrete. The USB stick never worked again.
-Bill
I put a USB stick on my keyring and then dropped my keys on thecurious.no.spam....@gmail.com> wrote in message
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What are the chances of a USB drive being damaged by static
electricity if someone put it in a ziploc drive?
The protective cap frequently comes off the USB stick I carry around in my
pocket - its been rattling around in there with all sorts of junk for a
couple of years now.
concrete. The USB stick never worked again.
-Bill
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Baron
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ian field wrote:
see the damage inside the casing. Getting it off the board is easier
than finding a new xtal !
--
Best Regards:
Baron.
Its usually the oscillator xtal that gets shattered ! Not that you can"Bill Bowden" <wrongaddress@att.net> wrote in message
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On Jun 14, 3:23 pm, "ian field" <dai....@ntlworld.com> wrote:
curious.no.spam....@gmail.com> wrote in message
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What are the chances of a USB drive being damaged by static
electricity if someone put it in a ziploc drive?
The protective cap frequently comes off the USB stick I carry around
in my pocket - its been rattling around in there with all sorts of
junk for a couple of years now.
I put a USB stick on my keyring and then dropped my keys on the
concrete. The USB stick never worked again.
-Bill
That must have been unusual bad luck, I recently needed a USB
connector and sacrificed an old 64M stick to get it - it was
surprisingly solidly assembled and correspondingly difficult to remove
the connector intact.
see the damage inside the casing. Getting it off the board is easier
than finding a new xtal !
--
Best Regards:
Baron.
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On Jun 15, 12:39 pm, Baron <baron.nos...@linuxmaniac.nospam.net>
wrote:
apart.
It started enumerating with a generic chip-vendor ID rather than the
stick vendor,
I figure that either the flash chip failed, or the connection between
that and the USB chip failed.
But yes, a broken crystal is another possibility for a more generally
"dead" failure.
wrote:
I was not impressed by the solder quality on the failed one I tookI put a USB stick on my keyring and then dropped my keys on the
concrete. The USB stick never worked again.
Its usually the oscillator xtal that gets shattered ! Not that you can
see the damage inside the casing. Getting it off the board is easier
than finding a new xtal !
apart.
It started enumerating with a generic chip-vendor ID rather than the
stick vendor,
I figure that either the flash chip failed, or the connection between
that and the USB chip failed.
But yes, a broken crystal is another possibility for a more generally
"dead" failure.