128GB Flash Drive...

So I bought a 128GB Kingston DataTraveler 200 from someone for $30. He bought a few from eBay for $35 and thought that I would want one, so I bought one for $30.

Today, I had to do some backing up of a couple [somewhat] important Word documents. When I needed to access them, they were corrupted. Wouldn't open. Nothing else I transferred to it would work either (movies, pictures, etc). A lot of the file and folder names were just weird and random characters.

It had FAT32 as the filesystem already on it. Maybe I needed to format it to NTFS or something? I don't know whether I should try and sell it so someone or just trash it... Or maybe keep it? I really don't know.

Wow, really? That's good to hear! I was just about to post a Craigslist ad for this thing. I guess I'll keep it.

Although the write speeds are quite slow... Usually around 3.5MB/s. They advertise 10MB/s (under their "testing" conditions). Should that be a concern? I formatted it to NTFS. Hopefully it'll work now.

Yeah, it's definitely a fake or something. Files would eventually corrupt themselves and wouldn't open. Plus the write speed is extremely slow.

tw33k said:

besweeet said:

Wow, really? That's good to hear! I was just about to post a Craigslist ad for this thing. I guess I'll keep it.

Although the write speeds are quite slow... Usually around 3.5MB/s. They advertise 10MB/s (under their "testing" conditions). Should that be a concern? I formatted it to NTFS. Hopefully it'll work now.

You were going to sell a fake and faulty flash drive??!! Remind me never to buy from you.

Yeah I think I'll pass on buying from him as well.....tho now I wish I had a bigger flash drive

Do you have it optimized for quick removal and or are you using the safely remove icon? I've had one get corrupted when I removed it before the data was completly written to it..

A good chance that those are fake, or were grabbed by someone before they could be destroyed after they failed QA.