[ivegotnoaccount]

Failing inexplicably does not mean that it failed because of the issue talked about here. It could as well be bad contacts or soldering whiskers. I'd prefer a USB stick that does not fail too, but in fact, I have never had any fail on me so I don't know the prevalence, and know even less which parts come from this specific issue. Also, if your USB drive starts having a heating element, you need to trust it to not fry everything due to a regulation failure in badly designed units that fail closed. I also doubt a process of heating "at 250 degrees for hours" could be done at 50°. Even of it could, it would literally take days at a time.