[wplug] OT- Jumpdrive

[Richard Farina]

At 12:03 AM 4/9/2005, A. McCullough wrote:
>Not sure if you can... these things have a capacitor in them that holds 
>the data on the chip. Eventually, the capacitor dies... and probably, your 
>data with 'em. They're not designed for long-term storage, unfortunately. 
>I've heard of three separate instances where they just quit after a while. 
>I love mine but I'm well aware that sooner or later it'll become nothing 
>more than a key fob.
>
>Anyone else know more about 'em?
>

Not sure exactly which part of FLASH MEMORY was misunderstood, but there is 
not capacitor in a jump drive holding your data there.
These devices have NO electricity in them when not plugged into a power 
source (computer)

-Rick Farina



>Out of lurk mode temporarily :)
>Anna
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: <mailto:diego96 at mac.com>Doug Green
>To: <mailto:wplug at wplug.org>user list
>Sent: Friday, April 08, 2005 7:32 PM
>Subject: [wplug] OT- Jumpdrive
>
>Hey all-
>I've got a defunked Lexar Jumpdrive. Plugging it in does nada- no flashy 
>light on the drive, computers don't recognize it at all- regardless of OS, 
>this thing just stopped working. Any ideas? Bad contact? If so, any ideas 
>on how to fix it and recover my data??
>Thanks,
>Doug
>
>
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