The Sticky Note Principle

Radioactive Dave: ... I solved ALL my USB problems in the last few days.

It turns out some USB plugs (be they thumb drives or cables), are not wide enough to do the job! 0.4730" is not wide enough to keep the contacts from disconnecting.  0.4825 works GREAT!

b1-66er: THAT is a great trivium.

How'd you figure it out?

RD: I have been having problems w/ corrupt USB drives for months, with 3 different computers.

b1: Yes, THAT I knew.

RD: Recently, I accidentally bumped one of my sticks, and I got the "disconnected" chime from Windows.

So I played with that combination.

I noticed it would connect and disconnect just by rotating the drive (moving the end of the drive closer and then further away.

All sorts of chimes resulted, connected, disconnected, connected again.

I compared another stick (top of the line Samsung), and it was much tighter.  No wobble.

b1: Okay•

So how'd you figure out the tolerance difference?  That's REALLY small (on human sized terms).

RD: I just now measured them both with my accurate calipers, and found the nearly 1/100th of an inch difference.

It was too small a difference to feel it with my fingers.

I tried bending the steel inside the jacks to make the jack tighter, and I destroyed the USB3 extension cable...

Kinda expensive lesson...

b1: Yes.

But learned AND FOREVER!

RD: Going forward I plan to use ONLY these drives: Samsung BAR Plus 64GB - 300MB/s USB 3.1 Flash Drive Titan Gray (MUF-64BE4/AM) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07BPGF6N3

Any size, but only that form factor.

I got condoms for them so I can put them in my pocket.

b1: ¡El super bueno!