I bought a Corsair CMFVY3S-16GB drive in July 2012. It died after less than a month. So after RMA-ing Corsair sent me another one. This one lasted just over a year before cra**ing out too, and with very light usage. While looking online if there's something I could do to salvage it, I found out a lot of other users also complaining of multiple drives failing in a matter of months. On the Corsair website they just tell you to RMA it without acknowledging that something is borked with this model.
Newegg reviews also show that something isn't sitting right here:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820233225
135 out od 282 (48%!) reviews are 1 star, most of them complaining the drive died. I know, I know, Newegg reviews aren't some gold standard, but almost 300 reviews is a pretty decent statistical sample size, and accounting for the fact that people tend to write more about bad experiences.
Since I paid $6 to send the drive back the first time, I'm not doing it any more, since it obviously can't be trusted. So I go to see some other USB 3.0 drives on newegg, and apparently, this ain't so uncommon. There are some with good reviews, and my Corsair model is about the worst, but many of them have lots of complaints of drives dying after a couple months:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820239293
10/23 (43%) have 1 star, much smaller number of reviews, but still makes me scratch my head
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820239626
7/32 (22%) another Kingston, not so bad, but still worrying
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820208599
7/25 (28%) after 2 Kingstons, I look at a Transcend one, in the first couple reviews "Drive dies after 4, 3, 2 and 2 months".
When the Corsair died, I plugged in some ancient 4GB Kingston drive that I use with my keyboard, and it still works with no hiccups, it's 4-5 years old. I also have some no-name branded 1GB that's really old, also works. Both are USB 2.0.
This brings me to my point: is there something fundamentally broken with USB3.0 flash drives? Maybe just a bad batch using a particular controller?
Are there more of you having more problems with them than USB 2.0?
Ironically, my main computer has no USB3.0 ports, I'm not sure I ever used one. I just thought since the price is similar, why not future-proof it a bit...
Cliffs:
- I have 2 USB2.0 flash drives that both work after more than 10 years between them.
- 2 USB3.0 drives (same model) failed with an average lifetime of around 7 months.
- A bunch of reviews on Newegg also seem to point towards more issues with USB3.0 drives.
Coincidence? Or is poorer reliability of USB3.0 something known?
Newegg reviews also show that something isn't sitting right here:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820233225
135 out od 282 (48%!) reviews are 1 star, most of them complaining the drive died. I know, I know, Newegg reviews aren't some gold standard, but almost 300 reviews is a pretty decent statistical sample size, and accounting for the fact that people tend to write more about bad experiences.
Since I paid $6 to send the drive back the first time, I'm not doing it any more, since it obviously can't be trusted. So I go to see some other USB 3.0 drives on newegg, and apparently, this ain't so uncommon. There are some with good reviews, and my Corsair model is about the worst, but many of them have lots of complaints of drives dying after a couple months:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820239293
10/23 (43%) have 1 star, much smaller number of reviews, but still makes me scratch my head
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820239626
7/32 (22%) another Kingston, not so bad, but still worrying
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820208599
7/25 (28%) after 2 Kingstons, I look at a Transcend one, in the first couple reviews "Drive dies after 4, 3, 2 and 2 months".
When the Corsair died, I plugged in some ancient 4GB Kingston drive that I use with my keyboard, and it still works with no hiccups, it's 4-5 years old. I also have some no-name branded 1GB that's really old, also works. Both are USB 2.0.
This brings me to my point: is there something fundamentally broken with USB3.0 flash drives? Maybe just a bad batch using a particular controller?
Are there more of you having more problems with them than USB 2.0?
Ironically, my main computer has no USB3.0 ports, I'm not sure I ever used one. I just thought since the price is similar, why not future-proof it a bit...
Cliffs:
- I have 2 USB2.0 flash drives that both work after more than 10 years between them.
- 2 USB3.0 drives (same model) failed with an average lifetime of around 7 months.
- A bunch of reviews on Newegg also seem to point towards more issues with USB3.0 drives.
Coincidence? Or is poorer reliability of USB3.0 something known?