Question Can't format my 4gb pendrive

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I should mention that I also avoid using the tiny USB flash drives barely bigger than a USB A connector because they tend to have heat and performance issues.

+1. The Nano and Micro compact flash drives and WLAN adapters, too. I have a SanDisk Cruzer Nano USB 3.0 that gets so hot after a couple GB writes, you can hardly hold it between the fingers to remove it! In fact I just stopped using it because I figured that much heat, premature failure is inevitable.

 

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+1. The Nano and Micro compact flash drives and WLAN adapters, too. I have a SanDisk Cruzer Nano USB 3.0 that gets so hot after a couple GB writes, you can hardly hold it between the fingers to remove it! In fact I just stopped using it because I figured that much heat, premature failure is inevitable.

Om that note, I recently received new USB 3.1 flash drives: Sandisk Ultra Dual Drive Go and Samsung , both in 64GB. I selected them because they are larger than the Nano/Micro footprint sized like the tiny KB/MS or Bluetooth adapters. After testing, these puppies get fairly hot as well. Hot enough it leaves me to wonder how long these suckers last, how prone they are to throttling or errors (with retry/resend) due to the temp? Not quite as hot as the SanDisk Cruzer Fit I mentioned, which is about like picking-up spent brass or casings from the ground right after finishing your run.

Both are quite speedy though, so I'm guessing this is just the present state of things for wringing these write and read speeds from such a small footprint. Too bad we can't underclock them or something.