Re: Sync option destroys flash!

Måns Rullgård
2005-05-13T22:39:31Z

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.

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Måns Rullgård
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