[ale] Has anybody used a flash disk recovery service?

[Jim Kinney]

Ouch! That's FAR worse than my definition.
On Jun 6, 2012 9:08 AM, "David W. Millians" <millia at panix.com> wrote:

> On Tue, June 5, 2012 4:01 pm, Michael H. Warfield wrote:
> > On Tue, 2012-06-05 at 11:13 -0400, david w. millians wrote:
> >
> >> Opinions needed on a flash drive repair service. We have a person who
> >> did the laptop-flash-destruction maneuver.
> >
> > What means "laptop-flash-destruction maneuver"?  No cutesy terms, what
> > happened?  Did they delete everything on it?  Did it start giving them
> > hard errors?  Did they run it through a washer and drier?  [Actually had
> > that happen with a little pocket drive - the NAND Flash chip fell off
> > the little PCB from the driver heat.  Wasn't anything on it I needed to
> > recover, fortunately.]  What was the technically correct term for what
> > they did and what they got?
>
> They stood up with the flash drive in the side of the laptop. The lanyard
> stayed with the chair. The flash drive bent downward at a 90 degree angle.
> The PCB is in two, and only one of the connections needed re-soldering.
>
> It's not the first drive I've seen this happen unfortunately. I've
> probably re-soldered about 35-40 of these for people from this exact
> behavior. So, that's the reason I used the phrase, and I apologize for the
> shorthand.
>
>
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