Just bought one of these little fuckers, left it idling in my PC for about 10 minutes without actually using it yet and when I decided to touch it I felt like I had accidentally put my hand in the toaster.
Saying it's hot is an understatement, I don't feel safe leaving this in a USB3 port, I'm thinking would it help to only use it in USB2 ports so it's doing less work help with the heat issues, or should I just throw it away and try something that was actually tested before being sold?
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Just like your CPU OP you need an essential USB port cooler. Did you not know this when into computering?
Using linux I stuck f2fs as the filesystem on my 64GB one.
It coalesces writes into groups, reducing load on the USB and keeping it cool, and allowing it to last longer.
Get gud
Never buy these pieces of shit, ever.
It's almost as if f2fs was made for flash storage.
I don't even know how it's legal I feel like if I took this on to a plane I could turn my laptop in to a bomb
I was going to put a heatsink on to it but I ran out of thermal paste, could I use cum?
Filename.
All you have to do is disable atime with f2fs and you end up with a screamin' little piece of storage.
Linux disk cache layer takes care of redundant read requests and offloads them to free RAM and speeds up read requests, and the write coalescing takes care to not burn the thing when writing mid to low I/O on simple shit.
I keep an IPFS store on my second 32GB one on my mini server.
Then OP should mkfs.f2fs instead of berating it for improper use.