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I bought two of these - one because I knew I was leaving my old work place and I needed to backup various scripts, programs, and macros that I designed over the past 4-5 years and the other to hold a windows 10 install image. The one holding the Win10 image is working just fine. The one I used to backup YEARS of scripts and macros and things I had worked on independently though fried the 3rd time I plugged it in to back it up at home. It worked fine when I was backing everything up. It worked fine again a couple of weeks later when my old work place needed one of the macros I designed - plugged it into my coworkers laptop, gave him that macro, everything worked fine. Maybe a week after that, I realized I hadn't yet plugged it into my PC to back everything up in case I lost the USB. So I plugged it in... and I heard a soft 'POP' noise. I didn't think too much of it at first (I wasn't even sure I had actually heard it), but I realized after a minute or so that my PC wasn't reading the USB drive. Thinking it was maybe just a slot that was acting up, I reached over to yank it out and try another slot... that sucker was HOT! Like, way way way way hotter than any USB drive ought to be. It also smelled of burning plastic. I didn't mess with it for the rest of the day, and took it to work the next day to see if my work laptop would read it - nope. Came back home, tried it on my girlfriends PC, nothing. Tried it on her laptop, nada. Held onto it for a few more weeks praying, hoping that some PC would read the thing just one more time so I could grab everything I had built over the past 4 years. Never did read ever again. I was crushed, and still am today about it - YEARS of notes, some of my proudest moments, many different iterations of time saving scripts, things I would come home from work and work on night after night until I went to sleep to refine and get to work even faster and more reliably - all of it gone like tears in the rain. I finally tossed it out a couple of weeks ago because I got tired of looking at it and remembering all the work I lost. I mean, a good amount of it is in my head, still. Lessons were learned and they'll stick with me. But I'll never get that stuff back I worked so hard at, and that sucks. I've purchased more PNY flash drives than I can count over the past 15 or so years, I've NEVER had one fail on me like this, and for something so important to me. After this, I don't think I'll be buying one ever again, certainly this model. I realize that I was likely just the 1/10,000 that had one fail the third time it was being used. Manufacturing processes are not perfect, and eventually someone will get the one that deviates just enough to crap out at the worst possible time. Sucks that it was me this time.