# BalenaEtcher destroyed 3 new USB drives

**URL:** <https://forums.balena.io/t/balenaetcher-destroyed-3-new-usb-drives/360608>\
**Category:** balenaEtcher\
**Tags:** support\
**Created:** [August 10, 2022, 9:14pm UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/balenaetcher-destroyed-3-new-usb-drives/360608 "2022-08-10T21:14:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![zwhitchcox](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/8e7dd6/32.png) [@zwhitchcox](https://forums.balena.io/u/zwhitchcox)\
**Post date:** [August 11, 2022, 3:20pm UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/balenaetcher-destroyed-3-new-usb-drives/360608/9 "2022-08-11T15:20:10Z")

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> This has been happening with this app for more than a year now. Is there a logical reason the devs don’t care? Is their goal the destruction of USB drives? Are they not smart enough to make it work? What’s the problem?

It’s not _impossible_, but _highly_ unlikely etcher broke your USB drive, again, please read [Etcher broke my USB stick … or did it?  
 ](https://www.balena.io/blog/did-etcher-break-my-usb-sd-card/)

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