Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: Sync option destroys flash! | | From | Alan Cox <> | | Date | Fri, 13 May 2005 23:00:34 +0100 |
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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))]
Alan
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