USB drive in a ziploc bag?

Pretty small if they put it in a plastic bag, especially if they capped the connector first.

But what's a 'ziploc drive' - never come across one of those before!

Chris

Zero. These things are designed to be handled.

John

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

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 !

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.