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I have a USB-3 drive that I use as a tertiary backup when I travel. Every now and then it goes into Read Only mode and I have to try to figure out all over again what to do in order to make it Read/Write again. The Disks utility... manually mounting and unmounting... etc. etc. Any tips or tricks to keep this from happening?

I have a USB-3 drive that I use as a tertiary backup when I travel. Every now and then it goes into Read Only mode and I have to try to figure out all over again what to do in order to make it Read/Write again. The Disks utility... manually mounting and unmounting... etc. etc. Any tips or tricks to keep this from happening?

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They're not SanDisk are they? More specifically SanDisk Cruzer. Those are the worst flash drives I've ever used. Some die within days. Others will randomly freeze in the middle of read/write operations and continue when it feels like it.

Get yourself a portable mSata or NVMe drive. Some of them aren't much larger than a flash drive.

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No not SanDisk. It's a drive brand I never heard of. I got it as swag from work.

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just bought one yesterday labeled "memorex". Haven't seen or heard of that brand in forty years.

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Is it live, or is it Memorex?