Solve : Thumd drives not working?

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Answer» I just bought 2 brand new 125 gb thumb drives off of ebay so that I could save all the movies off my pc to them. The thumb drives don't have any kind of manufacturers names on them. They will play the first 7 or 8 movies but any of the movies I save after that will not play. I cant figure out what the problem is I tried formatting them but im having the same problem any help would greatly appreciated thanksCounterfiet drives...it happens.This is a COMMON issue - Sellers buy cheap flash drives of a MUCH lower capacity and then flash them to make them appear larger than they actually are. I suggest you go straight away to eBay/Paypal to get your money back and then buy a drive from a reputable retailer. Look at the price you are paying, a flash drive that big will not be cheap, if you are seeing it sold for a very low price compared to the prices in reputable stores then think as to why this is, chances are it's one of these fake drives. Also, for storing stuff like movies, USB flash drives are an expensive (and not particularly reliable) way of doing this. You would be much better off getting an external hard drive, these are a lot cheaper and tend to be more reliable than the cheap flash memory used in USB flash drives. USB flash drives should be treated as a way to move files around easily, not for long term archiving or storing the only copy of anything important.ive had about 4 different external hard drives and every one of some kind of pin keeps breaking that cost 2,000.00 to fix so I just break down and buy another one and spend months redownloading music and movies but I finally got sick of it and decided to go with thumb drives Quote from: weezerwarrior on May 24, 2015, 06:03:59 PM ive had about 4 different external hard drives and every one of some kind of pin keeps breaking that cost 2,000.00 to fix so I just break down and buy another one and spend months redownloading music and movies but I finally got sick of it and decided to go with thumb drives What "pin" keeps breaking? Sounds like you need to take better care of the drives if I'm honest.I cant remember what its called but its a common thing that breaks on them. The first one was my fault my arm got HUNG on the cable and knocked it off the top of the desk, the second one that I had it fell from a bean bag chair literally about 1 FOOT onto a carpeted floor and stopped working so the third one that I bought I decided to get some two sided tape and stick it to the top of my laptop so I wouldn't have to worry about it falling and it held in there for about 8 months and then it just stopped working also so I decided to go with thumb drivesCamerongray is right. External Hard drives are more reliable than cheap flash drives. New famous name hard drives go for about $35 for a 250 GB brand name in a plain box. Add about $25 for a nice enclosure and power supply. That makes your cost about 20 cents a gigabyte. More or less. I just now looked at eBay. WOW, there are some scams out there. A real 128 GB flash drive has to go for about $40 if it is real. Noway can they sell it for $10 or less.

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I just bought 2 brand new 125 gb thumb drives off of ebay so that I could save all the movies off my pc to them.
The thumb drives don't have any kind of manufacturers names on them. They will play the first 7 or 8 movies but any of the movies I save after that will not play. I cant figure out what the problem is I tried formatting them but im having the same problem any help would greatly appreciated thanksCounterfiet drives...it happens.This is a COMMON issue - Sellers buy cheap flash drives of a MUCH lower capacity and then flash them to make them appear larger than they actually are. I suggest you go straight away to eBay/Paypal to get your money back and then buy a drive from a reputable retailer.

Look at the price you are paying, a flash drive that big will not be cheap, if you are seeing it sold for a very low price compared to the prices in reputable stores then think as to why this is, chances are it's one of these fake drives.

Also, for storing stuff like movies, USB flash drives are an expensive (and not particularly reliable) way of doing this. You would be much better off getting an external hard drive, these are a lot cheaper and tend to be more reliable than the cheap flash memory used in USB flash drives. USB flash drives should be treated as a way to move files around easily, not for long term archiving or storing the only copy of anything important.ive had about 4 different external hard drives and every one of some kind of pin keeps breaking that cost 2,000.00 to fix so I just break down and buy another one and spend months redownloading music and movies but I finally got sick of it and decided to go with thumb drives Quote from: weezerwarrior on May 24, 2015, 06:03:59 PM

ive had about 4 different external hard drives and every one of some kind of pin keeps breaking that cost 2,000.00 to fix so I just break down and buy another one and spend months redownloading music and movies but I finally got sick of it and decided to go with thumb drives

What "pin" keeps breaking? Sounds like you need to take better care of the drives if I'm honest.I cant remember what its called but its a common thing that breaks on them. The first one was my fault my arm got HUNG on the cable and knocked it off the top of the desk, the second one that I had it fell from a bean bag chair literally about 1 FOOT onto a carpeted floor and stopped working so the third one that I bought I decided to get some two sided tape and stick it to the top of my laptop so I wouldn't have to worry about it falling and it held in there for about 8 months and then it just stopped working also so I decided to go with thumb drivesCamerongray is right.
External Hard drives are more reliable than cheap flash drives.
New famous name hard drives go for about $35 for a 250 GB brand name in a plain box. Add about $25 for a nice enclosure and power supply. That makes your cost about 20 cents a gigabyte. More or less.

I just now looked at eBay. WOW, there are some scams out there. A real 128 GB flash drive has to go for about $40 if it is real. Noway can they sell it for $10 or less.

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