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What actually happens with an USB flash drive when it dies?
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Most of us have had by now a few USB sticks dying from natural causes... you unplug them (regardless, in my experience whether you've safely removed hardware) and the next time you plug them in, it is like you didn't. Nothing shows. I'm curious - what actually happens to a flash drive when we say t…
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Flash memory cells use floating gate transistors to store each bit. The "floating" part of semiconductor is surrounded by an oxide and acts like a reservoir for electrical charge. Electrons can be "tunnelled" into or out of the floating gate (throug…
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