gray_patel•9d agoProlific Poster

Can we talk about these cheap USB flash drives that fail during a software load?

I was loading some new nav software into a Garmin G1000 last Thursday. Used one of those no-name USB drives from the checkout aisle. Halfway through the upload, drive died. Corrupted the whole load. Had to redo the whole thing from scratch. Boss was not happy. Anyone else stick to specific brands for loading software?

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kellyg149d ago

Oh yeah, "heat from the avionics bay cooked that cheap thing" - honestly the drive was probably doomed before it even got to your plane. Those no-names are like, made from recycled hopes and dreams. They can't even handle a warm pocket, let alone a panel full of hot-running avionics. You're better off using a drive you'd actually trust to bootcamp a laptop, like a SanDisk or a Samsung. I learned that lesson the hard way when I tried to load firmware on a King Air with a drive from a gas station. It threw an error halfway through and I had to call the field rep to bail me out. Now I keep a box of the good stuff in my go-bag like it's gold.

piper_lopez9d ago

Halfway through the upload, drive died" - yeah that's rough. Bet the heat from the avionics bay cooked that cheap thing before it even got going.