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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?
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Author: christofireDate: 10:31 13-06-08
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Author: John LarkinDate: 11:35 13-06-08
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On Fri, 13 Jun 2008 07:27:28 -0700 (PDT),
curious.no.spam.com@gmail.com wrote:
>What are the chances of a USB drive being damaged by static
>electricity if someone put it in a ziploc drive?
Zero. These things are designed to be handled.
John
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Author: ian fieldDate: 18:23 14-06-08
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Author: Bill BowdenDate: 00:17 15-06-08
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On Jun 14, 3:23=A0pm, "ian field" <dai....@ntlworld.com> wrote:
> <curious.no.spam....@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> news:dc4e20e5-9560-4a9e-b91e-e4ce8473e4cb@l64g2000hse.googlegroups.com...
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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
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Author: ian fieldDate: 10:07 15-06-08
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"Bill Bowden" <wrongaddress@att.net> wrote in message
news:1f0800d9-2cf9-4dcb-9b20-aab6c11bb5e1@34g2000hsh.googlegroups.com...
On Jun 14, 3:23 pm, "ian field" <dai....@ntlworld.com> wrote:
> <curious.no.spam....@gmail.com> wrote in message
>
> news:dc4e20e5-9560-4a9e-b91e-e4ce8473e4cb@l64g2000hse.googlegroups.com...
>
> > 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.
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Author: BaronDate: 12:39 15-06-08
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ian field wrote:
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> "Bill Bowden" <wrongaddress@att.net> wrote in message
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news:1f0800d9-2cf9-4dcb-9b20-aab6c11bb5e1@34g2000hsh.googlegroups.com...
> On Jun 14, 3:23 pm, "ian field" <dai....@ntlworld.com> wrote:
>> <curious.no.spam....@gmail.com> wrote in message
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>>
news:dc4e20e5-9560-4a9e-b91e-e4ce8473e4cb@l64g2000hse.googlegroups.com...
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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.
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 !
--
Best Regards:
Baron.
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On Jun 15, 12:39 pm, Baron <baron.nos...@linuxmaniac.nospam.net>
wrote:
> > I 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 !
I was not impressed by the solder quality on the failed one I took
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.
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