I spoke with a rep. at Sandisk, and he claimed that this was probably caused by my creating more than one partition on the drive. Their drives, he said, "aren't made to handle more than on partition".

That's a good point about having the testing device be the problem, not the drive. I brought ~6 drives to work one day and about half were bad with several bad blocks found. I'm just going to toss ...

USB-C cable makers and sellers are everywhere on Amazon, selling thousands of cables a day for a relatively new form of connectivity. USB-C as a technology is perfectly fine, it works very well moving ...

There are a lot of advantages to the USB Type-C protocol. Cables are reversible, so there’s no way to insert one upside down. The protocol allows for speedy data transfers, video output to ...

Google software engineer Benson Leung has become something of a folk hero for his efforts to review USB Type-C cables and let potential customers know whether or not ...

It's a common scene from TV: Our hero sneaks into the villain's office, plugs in a USB stick and — flash! — all the secret plans to conquer Chicago are sucked down into the thumb-drive. The only ...

Question: What can you tell me about the new USB-drive exploit that I'm hearing about? Answer: The ubiquitous USB drive has always been a potential threat to any computer that it plugs into, as ...

Subpar USB Type-C cables could fry your devices -- just ask that Google engineer who tested a few and ended up losing a Chromebook Pixel 2 to a particularly bad one. In an effort to protect users, the ...

If you’ve been using Android Auto for more than a month or so, you probably know already that running the app on a regular basis typically comes with a pretty high likelihood of bugs. This is because ...

For a lot of users, USB type-C represents uncharted waters, so it’s been great to see Google’s Benson Leung wading out into them on our behalf, testing all the type-C cables he can lay his hands on, ...