absolutely never used the stick for anything but recording and replay on the mixer, it was either permanently stuck in the mixers qu-drive port or used to transfer files to the PC using a renkforce USB hub for fx editing and rerouting into them mixer via live.
i also suspect that the USB interface might have power issues over time, degradation of parts usually makes running power into a device problematic which anyone who has used a cheap USB-hub or underspec´d motherboard components running multiple USB devices might have experienced. i guess my best guess will be to try an external USB 2.0 hd if i find one and run it with extra power supply.
a trojan or virus that has hogged the USB device management of my PC might be very realistic. and might explain some missing file space allocation that my stick does not show, but which can also be accredited due to normal decay of a drive. then there were multiple holes in the intel architecture that might allow this to happen which we all can´t really defend against. “SPECTRE/MELTDOWN”. so you can guess that i m bamboozled especially after having used a stick with the most prominent reviews here.
i d really love for allen & heath to code their own usb-stick formatting tool. in the meantime i m looking at either buying a stick or doing a full backup – erase – reinstall with 500 gigs of samples and a lifetime of plugins purchased to get that bug of my system which might affect my USB component… who knows.
