Don't know if I'd take a hammer to it, but it definitely isn't something I'd trust with any type of data I wanted to keep.
I'm a tech, so I'd just clearly mark it with a couple of red dots (Cheap Fingernail polish) and drop it in my "for experimentation box".
Unless the info it contained would be considered a security threat I'd suggest permanently marking it as a bad or a "Washed up" drive and turning it into a dubious time capsule by filling it with several hours of clearly dated TV news and tossing it into the back of a drawer. I've never done that with a USB drive, but I've got a small collection of worn out half readable VCR cassettes and now a few DVD+RW's that's last mission is to more or less hold a several hours of randomly recorded news from the day we decided it wasn't safe to continue to record on it.
hmelton
God Bless
I'm a tech, so I'd just clearly mark it with a couple of red dots (Cheap Fingernail polish) and drop it in my "for experimentation box".
Unless the info it contained would be considered a security threat I'd suggest permanently marking it as a bad or a "Washed up" drive and turning it into a dubious time capsule by filling it with several hours of clearly dated TV news and tossing it into the back of a drawer. I've never done that with a USB drive, but I've got a small collection of worn out half readable VCR cassettes and now a few DVD+RW's that's last mission is to more or less hold a several hours of randomly recorded news from the day we decided it wasn't safe to continue to record on it.
hmelton
God Bless