On 10/1/21, to...@tuxteam.de <to...@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 :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *
