Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 13 May 2005 18:01:34 -0500 | From | Jeffrey Hundstad <> | Subject | Re: Sync option destroys flash! |
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Alan Cox wrote:
>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. > > > >> 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))] > > > If someone has a contact at the Linux Journal (or other magazine) it might be good to suggest this for an article.
-- Jeffrey Hundstad
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