On Fri, Dec 31, 2021 at 9:10 AM Robert Moskowitz <rgm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > On 12/31/21 00:22, Chris Murphy wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 22, 2021 at 2:03 PM Robert Moskowitz <rgm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> so something killed it and since tomorrow is garbage day... > >> > >> Sigh. that was a good $8 down the drain. > > Return it. Don't let people steal from you. Used a credit card? Report > > it. Do a charge back. You have 60 days from the date the statement > > containing the charge was mailed to you. If it's after 60 days, card > > might have an extended warranty on everything, give that a shot. > > > It has been sitting in my "backed up" bin for over a year. I backed up > something to it and now it is dead. > > Typically I back up something important with a double backup, like tax > records, so I doubt I really lost anything, but it is way past > warranty. Sigh. > > It is from Microcomputer Center over in Troy MI. They have these bins > of USB sticks very low price. No packaging, just take a couple out of > the bin at check out. I got a Dec present from them in a free 128GB > stick and bought 4 16GB for $5 each while I was restocking my DVD blanks > (stack of 500 Verbatim DVDs). They are a good place to pick up stuff > after a run to Costco; just a couple miles up the road. :) Yeah there's a Microcomputer Center near me. I sooner suspect it's just a bad luck defect rather than fake flash. But also, some flash out there will lose data when on the shelf too long. -- Chris Murphy _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
