An oddity I have found with Thumb Drives:
Posted by: Russ on 12 January 2013
OK, so I have found a way around it, and so am not posing any questions, but I thought I would throw it out there as interesting, though not very: I do not yet have a VTB Appliance hooked up--though that will come soon. So as a temporizing measure, I have been putting albums I really want to listen to onto various SanDisk Cruzer thumb drives of 16 gig capacity. Before using them, as they are, in FAT32 format, I delete all the various files provided on them, which I assume are for use as backup devices.
So, using an old laptop with Vista and a jury-rigged external CD drive because the one on the laptop has breathed its last, I rip CD s to FLAC format, level 5. I can then move them with no problems to other files set up for the purpose. Also, the first few files I move to any of the thumb drives go over there fine--albeit quite slowly. But I figure what the Hell, I move a lot slower myself, nowadays. But after that, when I try to move an album over, the movement gets hung up between tracks. (or when I try to move a large 192/24 download file, such as one movement from a Beethoven Piano Concerto--watch out--it gets hung up. But there is no rhyme or reason. After I delete the partial file from the thumb drive and try again, sometimes it works and sometimes it gets stuck--but in a different place every time. When this happens, my only remedy is to pull the thumb drive out without regard to the "Now it is safe to remove..." message. Then I plug it back in and I get a recommendation to run a diagnostic on the little drive. I do, and it is invariably OK. I then delete the partial file and try again.
Also, it ain't just one thumb drive--it is in fact every one I own.
But last night, I tried an experiment: I re-downloaded Beethoven's Fifth Piano Concerto at 192/24 onto the same partially full thumb drive that I failed with on my laptop--onto my wife's super duper pooper scooper Dell XPS with Windows Seven. Never a problem.
I think it is the Good Lord punishing me for a misspent life. I can only suppose that if I had lived an even more dissipated youth, He would have caused the process to fail on the desktop as well. 
Best regards,
Russ
Damn, Prubast, my literary talents have been lambasted many times and in many ways, but usually I get something along the lines of "Wow, that's five minutes of my life I'll never get back," or "Russ, you are an illiterate idiot!" But I don't think I have ever been accused of creating "...a turgid read..." before. In any case, while I remain sober of necessity (no longer being capable of holding my own with even one bouncer), I went back and read my post, and I must say that yes, it is turgid--so much so in fact that I don't think all the malt on Earth will render it salvagable. 
By the way, even when I was drinking, and could handle some pretty rot-gut stuff, I never could drink malt without getting a fiery headache.
Best regards,
Russ