New USB 3.0 flash drive dead after a day

kahlil88 · 2011-10-26 03:01:51

Just bought a 32GB Super Talent Express RAM Cache USB 3.0 flash drive on eBay. I've only used it to transfer data between my two Linux machines, worked great for a day. Copied some data onto it from my laptop, then plugged it into my desktop and it wouldn't mount. Ran dmesg and saw an "unknown partition table" error so I created a new table and created a FAT32 partition using GParted. Tried to re-copy but it hung on one of the files and then the drive unmounted and re-appeared. Now it only sees 240MB of total space!!! I don't know if it's related, but I was getting errors every time I "safely removed" the flash drive on either of my computers...

Error detaching: helper exited with exit code 1: Detaching device /dev/sdg
USB device: /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1a.7/usb1/1-1)
SYNCHRONIZE CACHE: FAILED: No such file or directory
(Continuing despite SYNCHRONIZE CACHE failure.)
STOP UNIT: FAILED: No such file or directory

lilsirecho · 2011-10-26 03:09:09

Don't despair....the 3.0 system may not be compatible with your gparted.. Search for more background on 3.0 devices.

kahlil88 · 2011-10-26 03:17:15

GParted was able to format it just fine the first time I plugged it in -- I had to erase the partition table in order to run a benchmark with Gnome Disk Utility.

greatant · 2011-10-26 23:04:42

Sounds like that 32GB drive is actually a relabelled 256MB drive.

Try testing with F3: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=47153

Last edited by greatant (2011-10-26 23:05:26)

kahlil88 · 2011-10-26 23:26:06

I copied about 7GB of music on and off of it, so I know it was good until the partition table was suddenly corrupted. I am a bit skeptical of its authenticity though, since the official picture shows the capacity engraved beside the words "USB3.0 Express RAM Cache" whereas mine just came with a sticker that says 32GB.

kahlil88 · 2011-11-18 01:14:03

RMA'd the flash drive and got a replacement today. I still get an error when "safely removing" it, but no problem unmounting as root from a command prompt. I hope it wasn't related to the first one failing. Any other Linux users have experience with these ERC drives?

Last edited by kahlil88 (2011-11-18 21:30:35)

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New USB 3.0 flash drive dead after a day

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