Re: Advice on usb pendrive purchase

[Kent West]

Karsten M. Self wrote:

on Fri, Dec 26, 2003 at 02:21:17PM -0300, Hugo S. Carrer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:

 

I'm looking for a usb pendrive - keychain,(or whatever the name is) but
don't know jack about'em. Of course I want to buy the most Linux-Debian
friendly one I can afford. I've been browsing through linux-usb.org but not
much luck with actual brand-names. So pointers and links to some Doc is
welcome.
   

Virtually all of them work.

For more info:

   http://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/26/business/26soft.html
   Floppies for the New Millennium
   Posted on Monday, December 01, 2003 by Rick Moen
Peace.

 

My experience with such devices has been less than stellar. As long as 
you leave them formatted as they come, no problems, but if you reformat 
them, particularly changing them to ext2, it's been my experience, 
limited as it's been, that you have a good chance of rendering them 
flakey and/or unusable. I'd expecially stay away from the SANSDisk brand 
(although my bad experience was with a SANSDisk SD card rather than a 
jumpdrive, but it soured me on the name).

My general impression is that the technology just isn't quite mature yet.

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Kent
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