USB-C seems standardized, but... Some are only for charging, some support video output, some support Thunderbolt, and some support USB4, it’s a challenge to tell them apart.
A while back during my freshman year of college, I bought a flash drive off Amazon for extra data storage. I forget how much this was but it was fairly cheap. The packaging and the fact it came from Amazon made me skeptical. My friends at the time advised me to not use it. Curious what other people think and if it’s safe to use or seems legit.
I'm looking for a decent USB-C thumb drive - not an SSD enclosure or portable SSD.
What I want:
Most of the small SanDisk or Samsung drives I've found seem either fragile or extremely slow (only tens of kilobytes per second).
On the other hand, the faster USB options are usually much bigger than I want, or have dual connectors like the Lexar JumpDrive D300, which I really don't need.
Does anyone have recommendations for a compact USB-C drive that's actually fast and reliable? Thanks in advance!
I was exporting photos from Lightroom to my flash drive then all of a sudden all my files were gone. When I click on info it says I only used ~125 mb but I used about ~80 gb since I have videos and pictures from 2018 on it. Then it has a ridiculous date on it. Picture was taken around 10pm est 05/07/26. Can anyone suggest how to recover or where to go?
When I tried to format a USB drive, it said it was write-protected. I see others have also run into this issue before. Here's how I formatted the write-protected USB flash drive using diskpart. It worked for me (Kingston DataTraveler 3.0 128GB, no physical lock switch).
The video is a bit long, so I sped it up. Hope it's helpful.
Hello everyone, I am having a strange error with my USB drive. I used it on a few other systems (Windows and a smart TV), and now that I bring it back into my PC, the storage size appears to be completely off, and I can't use the entire space.
I examined Disk Management and noticed some unallocated space, but I'm not sure what caused it. Previously, the drive was operational without issue.
Is this a file-system or partition problem? What is the most effective way to remedy this without further harming the drive?
My USB drive has suddenly become write-protected and I'm unable to modify or format it. I've already tried: Formatting File Explorer, also I tried Rufus Both methods fail due to the write-protection Current issue: I can't copy files onto the USB, or move or delete files from it Any write operation is blocked
I use SanDisk Ultra USB 3.0, and there is no physical write-protect switch
Has anyone encountered this before or knows how to remove the write protection? Any fixes would be appreciated.
I’m trying to recover a dead USB flash drive with a ChipsBank CBM2099E controller.
I found several CBM2099E UMP/APTool downloads on:
But Windows Defender/Chrome flags many of them as dangerous.
Can anyone confirm:
Whenever I try to open the files in my USB drive, I just get stuck on a load screen and sometimes it crashes my file explorer. Idk what to do bruh, this is pissing me off.
My USB drive has suddenly become write-protected and I'm unable to modify or format it. I've already tried: Formatting File Explorer, also I tried Rufus Both methods fail due to the write-protection Current issue: I can't copy files onto the USB, or move or delete files from it Any write operation is blocked
I use SanDisk Ultra USB 3.0, and there is no physical write-protect switch
Has anyone encountered this before or knows how to remove the write protection? Any fixes would be appreciated.
I found a USB 2.0 port on a new office PC. Has anyone else noticed USB 2.0 making a comeback? Especially, I saw this year's iPhone air and 17 support USB 2.0 too.
Is it to cut cable costs? Someone mentioned that USB 2.0 needs fewer traces on the motherboard. It uses smaller ports, and its hips are smaller too. Costs drop a lot.