Sturdy USB flash drives

Question

USB flash drives

I have such a problem: flash drives and hard drives constantly break / deteriorate.
I buy a new USB flash drive, I begin to actively use it on my laptop (everything is the same on other computers). Then, due to the fact that the device does not sit absolutely tightly in the USB port, you touch this device slightly - the contact is lost and the flash drive is turned off without a safe completion.


One, two, ten times you hit it like that : nothing else, the flash drive is alive and works quite well. Twenty times you hit it like this : every time you connect to a computer, it starts asking for a surface scan, some files become unreadable (can't be read or deleted). Thirty times you will touch it: when working with a flash drive, the computer starts to “freeze” in the process of reading data. You hit it fifty times: that's it, the flash drive is killed and cannot be restored, the data is lost.

As a result, the storage device lives an average of 6-10 months with active use. Although if it were attached to the USB port without leaving the slightest backlash, the service life would increase 10 times.

Actually the question is:do you know such flash drives, can you advise specific models that eliminate such a factor of “accidental touching” and, accordingly, turning off without safe removal?

Answer 1

There are flash drives that almost do not stick out of the USB port. This, I think it will be difficult to accidentally touch and remove.
In addition, you can, on the contrary, try to make the USB flash drive-> computer connection softer and connect the USB flash drive through a very short cord.

Answer 2

If you find an absolutely stable flash drive, turn all USB ports around.

Answer 3

Use a USB extension cable. If you have them constantly breaking, then nothing can be done about it. As said above, if you find a strong flash drive, you will break the port. And this is fraught, I once burned the motherboard: I touched a flash drive sticking out of the desktop with my foot, it got out along with the port, and then pipets, the computer stopped loading altogether.

Answer 4

As an option - buy a micro card reader and, accordingly, a micro-sd card. More expensive than just a flash drive, but everything will be masipusinka - it's harder to hurt.
Here, for example, the card reader itself for a dollar: www.dealextreme.com/p/smallest-microsd-transflash-usb-card-reader-with-cover-blue-7134 the
blue stray is easy to remove, you get a very, very compact thing. Buy yourself a bunch of these :)

Answer 5

I have one soldered into the case.