Review on 💾 SanDisk 64GB Cruzer USB 2.0 Flash Drive with Frustration-Free Packaging - SDCZ36-064G-AFFP by Lora Schnabel

8GB, 16GB and 32GB size issues. All are 100% reliable for many years. (Bye!) I believe there are still 4GB devices out there in everyday life that continue to work just fine! Unfortunately, I CANNOT say the same about the SanDisk Cruzer CZ36 64GB USB 2.0 Flash Drive, SDCZ36-064G-AFFP. Some time ago I bought my first 64GB model. Actually it was the SAME MODEL and it FELT THE SAME WAY as the one I just bought about a week ago. My first 64GB drive decided to go into "WRITE PROTECT MODE" shortly after the 30 day warranty expired. So I couldn't return it for a refund. Based on my experience with other Sandisk products I thought this was an isolated case and forgot about it as the 30 day return period had expired and there was nothing I could do about it anyway. In the meantime, my old workhorse Sandisk 8 and 16GB SanDisk Cruzer flash drives continued to work just fine. Oh I wish I could read the reviews on the 64GB model before buying another! I'm a software developer and I need a reliable device for my daily backups. Changes to the code I'm writing. I had been on a daily backup routine for about a week when I suddenly stopped writing data to my 64GB SanDisk flash drive. Since I was using this on a Linux system I figured the read/write permissions had changed somehow. After restarting the computer and numerous checks with no change, I removed the 64GB Sandisk flash from the system in question and tried it on several other computers. In fact, I've tried it on every computer I have, including systems running MSDOS, Windows 95, 98, XP, WIN7, and WIN10, as well as various Apple products running OS X, Android products with OTG ports, and of course workhorse Linux -Computers containing multiple Raspberry Pi models including the latest Raspberry Pi 3. SUCH A PROBLEM! It looks like my 1 week old SanDisk Cruzer CZ36 64GB USB 2.0 Flash Drive, SDCZ36-064G-AFFP, has entered "WRITE PROTECT MODE-", the exact same failure mode as in the previous block. That's when I decided to read the reviews on Revain and this time I went through the reviews for this particular flash drive model and was blown away by what I saw. Let's do it now. 518 critical reviews (?) and a great many of them claiming to have the same problem putting a drive into permanent write protect mode? Does this mean there is a serious problem with this device? So here is my current situation. I cannot return the device for a refund without seriously damaging my own source code, which is now permanently stored. on this device. The only solution is to back up the data to something more reliable and then destroy the 64GB drive as there is no way to erase the data stored on this device. Product. If I could give it ZERO stars I would consider it a product with a SERIOUS design. SanDisk may consider this a design feature(?) to "-PROTECT" the data stored on the drive, but in my case I consider this a VERY SERIOUS design flaw.