Best case scenario is that you erase the data on the usb drive. Worst case is that you ruin the drives ability to carry information.
Presuming that what you mean is a flash drive (aka thumbstick, thumb drive, and various other names), it will suffer the same ill effects of any magnetically-written device: the magnetic field from the magnet will alter the weak magnetically-encoded information on the device, thus corrupting whatever was written to it. The extent of this damage is based on a number of factors but most notable are the strength of the magnet and amount of time of exposure.
If you want to keep your family pictures or homework or whatever else safe, keep magnets away from your flash drives.
Also, just so you know, flash drives are not designed to be permanent storage, so if you are asking because you are intending to keep your family pictures on them as a permanent means of storage so as to free up space on your hard drive, don't. Instead, use an external hard drive (not SSD as they are nothing more than glorified flash drives) or write the files to burnable media such as CDs, DVDs, or Blu-ray discs. The average life of a flash drive is about 3 years while the average life of a hard drive is seven years (of moderate use, much longer if used only as offline storage, meaning once the files are written, the drive is put away and kept in a safe place), and 25 years or more for the burnable discs (but, just like any discs, they can be scratched and become unusable, so be sure to keep the discs safe).
I hope all this helps. If you have any additional questions, feel free to let me know.
Best case scenario is that you erase the data on the usb drive. Worst case is that you ruin the drives ability to carry information.
The USB drive is not mounted properly.
Best case scenario is that you erase the data on the usb drive. Worst case is that you ruin the drives ability to carry information.
I don't believe you can recover a file from a USB drive if you don't have the USB drive. I keep backups of the files.
No it will have no effect on the life of the mechanical hard drive, the only difference is that the full speed of the USB 3.0 device data transfers (5 Gbps) will not be available, data transfers to and from the hard drive will happen at the slower USB 2.0 speed (about 0.5 Gbps).
Your external USB drive only needs a cable.It's only going to be as fast as the bandwidth of a USB or USB 2.0 connection can be?
the creator of the usb flash drive is Dov Moran
Go on My Computer.. And its shown.
A USB drive allows a USB device to be plugged into the computer. Common items are cameras and webcams. You will rarely need to replace the USB drive on your computer, since it is not something that can easily be damaged.
Buy the CD and copy it onto a USB drive
If there is sufficient space in the USB drive, it is possible to create a bootable USB from the original downloaded .iso image.
to plug in your usb stick/pen/drive... (: