Re: USB memory stick quality [was: "Proper" filesystem for Debian installed on a flash drive]
One more lesson applies to usb memory sticks. All of the guts visit China
before going into the cases with those trademarks on them.
On Fri, 1 Oct 2021, Cindy Sue Causey wrote:
> On 10/1/21, tomas@tuxteam.de <tomas@tuxteam.de> wrote:
> >
> > I take two lessons out of it:
> >
> > (1) quality of those things scatters widely. Do take Marco's
> > advise seriously and have always a Plan B. In my case, it's
> > Just A Backup (TM), so I make it so my main disk doesnt
> > fail until I find a replacement stick ;-@
>
> Left that in because it has applied to all the hardware I've ever
> bought. Ages ago, I mused on here that every critical hardware aspect
> of computing needs *at least one* backup sitting in a drawer nearby.
> At the time, it was probably about something like those ethernet to
> USB adapters. It might have been about external dialup modems, too.
>
> > (2) I have the hunch that the name on the shell bears little
> > relation to the guts inside. The latter are whatever the vendor
> > putting its name on the outside can scavenge cheaply off the
> > market at some point in time. So trading brand names might
> > be possibly misleading ;-)
>
> Am only typing because I just experienced this with keyboards. Six or
> eight keyboards were stuffed under my nose in a vendor's email last
> night. All looked exactly the same, just had different seller logos on
> a nameplate sitting right above the arrow keys.
>
> Last night the prices were within a couple dollars of each other (plus
> the same outrageous shipping). In the past, the prices have sometimes
> been $20 apart for what is obviously the exact same item. :)
>
> Cindy :)
>
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