Messages in this thread | | | From | Måns Rullgård <> | Subject | Re: Sync option destroys flash! | Date | Sat, 14 May 2005 00:22:31 +0200 |
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Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> writes:
> On Gwe, 2005-05-13 at 20:10, Michael H. Warfield wrote: >> > It sounds like your need to find a vendor who makes decent keys. For >> > that matter several vendors now offer life time guarantees with their >> > USB flash media. >> >> Now THAT I gotta check into. I never noticed anything on the >> packaging about a guarantee, but I will now. > > Most of them have guarantees of some form (this URL might be useful > since it lists the guarantee times for a lot of the media - EU > guarantees anyway, US often seem to be a lot different) > > http://www.valuemedia.co.uk/compact_flash.htm > > As you'll see Lexar for example offer lifetime guarantees on their > units. I believe Kingston also do.
Isn't a lifetime guarantee terminated by definition at the instant the device dies?
>> But how do you determine which are >> "decent" keys? They don't put stickers on them saying "this one is >> decent" and "this one is junk" and I'm an old cynic who has learned that >> price is not always a good indicator either. Maybe the guarantee will >> be a clue. I've just got to shop for it more. > > Or it may even be cheaper to "burn" a few - buy one of each type from > various shops, do 2 million writes to the same sector and take them back > the next day if they died [And publish the review data 8))]
It's probably a good idea to get from different shops, or someone might get suspicious when you take them back.
-- Måns Rullgård mru@inprovide.com
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