[hakfoo]

Back in ~2014, I had a newish 32Gb USB3 flash drive. At that time, premium mainboards had FireWire headers for front panel connectors, on board as well as USB2. Both are 2x5 headers and can easily be smashed on if the connector keying isn't really well done. The FireWire header can deliver 12v (apparently it can be "8-30v" but real PCs tended to deliver the voltage they had available). You can see where this went.

After being inserted in, the drive was dead on USB2. On USB3 it would work for a few minutes at a time. This became relevant when I discovered the drive still worked in that few-minutes-at-a-time fashion in 2021 and contained my old wallet with 30,000 Dogecoin on it.