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Re: Memory Stick Reliability Issue

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On Wed, 09 May 2012 13:59:45 -0600, Tony Toews
<ttoews@telusplanet.net> wrote:

>On Wed, 09 May 2012 10:37:00 -0700, Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net>
>wrote:
>  
>>     I have two systems: an XP system which is my main system and a
>>Windows 7 system which is for development.  The latter is a
>>sacrificial goat which might get sacrificed yet and rebuilt.
>
>Consider using Virtual PC or Virtual Box for such sacrificial OSs.  So
>long as the host PC has lots of RAM.  If you use an USB attached
>external hard drive (and at least a dual core PC although I don't
>think you could find a single core PC these days)  you won't even
>notice the OS startup and shutdown.  I have every version of Windows
>since 2000 on that external hard drive.

     Not enough RAM on my XP system.  I needed another computer
anyway.  Not using such is simpler.  Maybe I will give it a try if my
7 system ever becomes my main system.

[snip]

>Do you copy from the memory stick to the hard drive and then do the
>install?  Or install from the memory stick?  Memory sticks don't seem
>to do well with lots of different reads like an install would do.
>But that's very subjective on my part.

      I copy to the hard drive of the 7 system and install from the
hard drive.  The slowness that I have seen with memory sticks has been
with writes.  That may have been a different USB version as it was
some years ago.

Sincerely,

Gene Wirchenko

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Memory Stick Reliability Issue Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net> - 2012-05-09 10:37 -0700
  Re: Memory Stick Reliability Issue Jeroen Mostert <jmostert@xs4all.nl> - 2012-05-09 20:44 +0200
    Re: Memory Stick Reliability Issue Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net> - 2012-05-09 12:50 -0700
      Re: Memory Stick Reliability Issue Jeroen Mostert <jmostert@xs4all.nl> - 2012-05-09 22:18 +0200
        Re: Memory Stick Reliability Issue Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net> - 2012-05-09 13:31 -0700
  Re: Memory Stick Reliability Issue Tony Toews <ttoews@telusplanet.net> - 2012-05-09 13:59 -0600
    Re: Memory Stick Reliability Issue Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net> - 2012-05-09 13:35 -0700
      Re: Memory Stick Reliability Issue Tony Toews <ttoews@telusplanet.net> - 2012-05-09 21:42 -0600
  Re: Memory Stick Reliability Issue Philipp Post <post.philipp@googlemail.com> - 2012-06-25 06:32 -0700
    Re: Memory Stick Reliability Issue rja.carnegie@gmail.com - 2012-07-02 03:53 -0700

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