{"id":3554,"date":"2011-08-17T14:15:11","date_gmt":"2011-08-17T20:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/royceeddington.com\/?p=3554"},"modified":"2011-08-17T14:15:11","modified_gmt":"2011-08-17T20:15:11","slug":"avoid-the-shiny-metal-hp-v220w-usb-flash-drives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/royceeddington.com\/?p=3554","title":{"rendered":"Avoid the shiny metal HP v220w USB flash drives"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shopping.hp.com\/product\/computer\/categories\/storage_solutions\/1\/accessories\/DT2364\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" \" title=\"HP POS\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hpshopping.speedera.net\/s7d2.scene7.com\/is\/image\/HPShopping\/big_fmt\/dt2364_main.jpg?resize=240%2C157\" alt=\"HP POS\" width=\"240\" height=\"157\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">HP POS<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Please excuse my looooong absence, but I&#8217;ve been extraordinarily busy with hundreds of work projects these last few months.<\/p>\n<p>Recently I purchased a HP v220w USB flash drive. It was on sale at the time and was the cheapest 16gb stick on the shelves, so I figured why not. A flash drive is a flash drive, right?<\/p>\n<p>I first plugged it into my main desktop PC running Windows 7. It mounted, then disappeared, then re-mounted, then disappeared again.<\/p>\n<p>OK, I thought, maybe it didn&#8217;t like Windows 7 or that particular PC. I rebooted the Windows 7 PC and tried plugging in the HP drive again, but got the same disappearing mount trick.<\/p>\n<p>So I made the rounds&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Plugging it into a MacBook Pro Laptop : Wouldn&#8217;t mount five out of five times.<\/li>\n<li>Plugging it into a Mac Pro 12-core Desktop : Wouldn&#8217;t mount five out of five times.<\/li>\n<li>Plugging it into a Windows 7 desktop : Wouldn&#8217;t mount first 3 times. Mounted on 4th try and stayed mounted! Unplugging it and then plugging it back in&#8230; it wouldn&#8217;t mount.<\/li>\n<li>Plugging it into a Windows 7 Laptop : Wouldn&#8217;t mount first 4 times. Mounted on 5th, then disappeared.<\/li>\n<li>Plugging it into a Windows Vista desktop: Wouldn&#8217;t mount five out of five times.<\/li>\n<li>Plugging it into a Windows XP desktop (the &#8220;emergency&#8221; spare): Wouldn&#8217;t mount five out of five times.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>At this point, I knew it was a bad flash drive. So I went back to the store I bought it from and got an identical replacement HP drive. The same size, the same 220w variety.<\/p>\n<p>So imagine my surprise when I plugged this new flash drive into my systems and the Same! Damn! Thing! Happened!<\/p>\n<p>I was impressed. In all the wrong ways, mind you, but I was impressed.<\/p>\n<p>So I looked online. Specifically HP&#8217;s own website where they sell this&#8230; thing. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shopping.hp.com\/product\/computer\/categories\/storage_solutions\/1\/accessories\/DT2364\">It&#8217;s full of one star reviews and people reporting similar experiences.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>SO, in summary, I have to say the HP v220w USB flash drive is junk. Did I say junk? I meant ABSOLUTE GARBAGE. A USB drive that will not mount? That&#8217;s a textbook example of terrible engineering and rotten quality control.<\/p>\n<p>HP: screwing up accessories every other company gets right.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Please excuse my looooong absence, but I&#8217;ve been extraordinarily busy with hundreds of work projects these last few months. Recently I purchased a HP v220w USB flash drive. 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