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Those free USB sticks in your drawer are somehow crappier than you thought (arstechnica.com)

submitted 9 months ago by const_void@lemmy.ml to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] aluminium@lemmy.world 69 points 9 months ago (7 children)

Just happened to me the other day at THE worst possible moment. I bought a new mainboard which needed a BIOS update to work with my new CPU.

Me of course being a cheapskate I bought the cheapest one with no Bios flashback. So I put the files on a cheap USB, start the upate and compleatly bricked the mainboard.

After that I plugged the USB back into my PC and the fking USB corrupted the files.

Luckily I managed to save the BIOS but absolutley lost it in that moment.

[–] fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.world 23 points 9 months ago (5 children)

Value your time and sanity over pure monetary value. It seems like something Lemmy users seem to do the complete opposite of at all times.

Saving $1 on a flash drive could have cost $100 on a motherboard. Saving $20 could have cost you $100 buying another one.

[–] ADTJ 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Learned this lesson the hard way, once bought a cheap replacement laptop charger for one that had broken.

It didn't work and instead borked the backlight of my screen. I then discovered that on this model, the backlight couldn't be separately replaced, had to buy and fit a whole new screen and then also buy another replacement charger.

[–] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 6 points 9 months ago

Never cheap out on things that hold data, or power supplies.

At best, you'll get extremely lucky and nothing untoward will happen.. giving you false confidence to try again.

At worst, catastrophic loss of data, hardware, or more.

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