{"id":363,"date":"2008-04-14T07:08:21","date_gmt":"2008-04-14T13:08:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bendreth.com\/?p=363"},"modified":"2008-04-14T07:08:21","modified_gmt":"2008-04-14T13:08:21","slug":"sore-thumb-drive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/?p=363","title":{"rendered":"Sore Thumb (Drive)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every now and then, something breaks. I&#8217;ve had two USB thumb drives go bad on me (and a couple others go missing). The most recent one to go bad was a 2 gig one. I try not to keep anything really important on them, but they&#8217;re a lot more convenient than burning CDs or DVDs, so that doesn&#8217;t always hold.<\/p>\n<p>In any case, I knew there was a lot of stuff on this one that I hadn&#8217;t saved yet, so I wanted to offload it, if I could. There were two options &#8211; either there was a mechanical failure, or one of the chips had gone bad. If a chip had gone bad, I was out of luck. If it was mechanical, I could possibly do something about it.<\/p>\n<p>Since I had an old USB 1.0 hub that was itself acting a little flakey, I decided to sacrifice both of them to a rescue attempt. Now, a soldering iron is supposedly one of the most dangerous things a software type can have in hand, as illustrated below. It worked, however. And isn&#8217;t that what really matters?<\/p>\n<p><a href='https:\/\/bendreth.com\/__oneclick_uploads\/2008\/04\/sorethumb.JPG' title='Sore Thumb'><img src='https:\/\/bendreth.com\/__oneclick_uploads\/2008\/04\/sorethumb.thumbnail.JPG' alt='Sore Thumb' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>(As is now presumably usual, click for larger.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every now and then, something breaks. I&#8217;ve had two USB thumb drives go bad on me (and a couple others go missing). The most recent one to go bad was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activities","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}