Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262575AbVEMXCg (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 May 2005 19:02:36 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262612AbVEMXCS (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 May 2005 19:02:18 -0400 Received: from Mail.MNSU.EDU ([134.29.1.12]:18633 "EHLO mail.mnsu.edu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262590AbVEMXBl (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 May 2005 19:01:41 -0400 Message-ID: <428531CE.4090006@mnsu.edu> Date: Fri, 13 May 2005 18:01:34 -0500 From: Jeffrey Hundstad User-Agent: Debian Thunderbird 1.0.2 (X11/20050331) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alan Cox CC: mhw@wittsend.com, Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Sync option destroys flash! References: <1116001207.5239.38.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1116009619.9371.494.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1116011430.5239.108.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1116021632.20550.11.camel@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <1116021632.20550.11.camel@localhost.localdomain> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.91.0.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1650 Lines: 51 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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/