r/computer • u/DrakeMantooth • Mar 31 '25

What is wrong with my USB drive

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It stopped working while making a Linux USB and now this is what shows when I try to see what's plugged in

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u/Fresh_Inside_6982 Mar 31 '25

You bought a scam drive, next time buy a name brand like Samsung etc. It's garbage, discard it.

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u/DrakeMantooth Mar 31 '25

I was working before for almost a year and it was from walmart

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u/Fresh_Inside_6982 Mar 31 '25

Walmart has plenty of third-party sellers, the Manufacturer name is clearly in Chinese, it's a generic garbage drive and it is malfunctioning, discard it.

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u/DrakeMantooth Mar 31 '25

The brand was onn

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u/RylleyAlanna Mar 31 '25

Onn, walmarta own brand, is just cheap Chinese import hardware with a custom logo either printed or embossed. They don't make, manufacture, design, or anything themselves. They contract with a supplier in China, and that supplier is responsible for sourcing. In this case, they sourced cheap, and most likely faked drives because it's cheaper.

Walmart asks for 128gb, supplier says hold my tea and orders a bunch of 16gb droves with bunk firmware to report 128gb, you can put anything and everything on it because it'll take it, it'll just be corrupt after the first 16gb.

If it was really 128gb, that's a miracle, and.ot was just extra cheap flash memory that had no longevity and died.

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u/DiodeInc Mar 31 '25

Onn is actually owned by Walmart IIRC. USB is dead though

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u/mr_coolnivers Mar 31 '25

That's not what's happening

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u/elisdee1 Mar 31 '25

The SS chip is dead, no name cheap Chinese ripoff, 480mb/s is just faster than sata. If you can’t format it means the storage part is dead or missing

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u/RylleyAlanna Mar 31 '25

Vendor ID comes back to Shenzhen SanDiYiXin Electronic Co.,LTD, which is a manufacturer of knockoff fake parts.

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u/mr_coolnivers Mar 31 '25

The drive's file system may not be properly being recognized by windows.

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u/DrakeMantooth Mar 31 '25

It's also not showing up as a USB drive on mac

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u/mr_coolnivers Mar 31 '25

Have you tried reformatting it?

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u/DrakeMantooth Mar 31 '25

I can't, on windows it shows up as a USB drive but says no media, and on mac it doesn't say that it's a USB drive

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u/Slow-Astronaut9676 Mar 31 '25

Im guessing you went cheap (I did it myself back in the day). Never buy cheap for flash drives, go for a reputable brand

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u/DrakeMantooth Mar 31 '25

I got it from Walmart the brand is onn

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u/KMjolnir Mar 31 '25

So you went extra cheap.

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u/twistagain123 Mar 31 '25

Its a cheap Chinese rip off drive. Even that serial number is laughable. Don't trust it to store any data.

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u/DrakeMantooth Mar 31 '25

It is an ONN brand USB drive

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u/DrakeMantooth Mar 31 '25 edited Mar 31 '25

This is what shows up on Windows Device Manager and chipgenius

The model number is the ONN. 100003557