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Re: USB memory stick quality [was: "Proper" filesystem for Debian installed on a flash drive]

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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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"Proper" filesystem for Debian installed on a flash drive Nate Bargmann <n0nb@n0nb.us> - 2021-09-29 15:10 +0200
  Re: "Proper" filesystem for Debian installed on a flash drive Reco <recoverym4n@enotuniq.net> - 2021-09-29 16:50 +0200
    Re: "Proper" filesystem for Debian installed on a flash drive Nate Bargmann <n0nb@n0nb.us> - 2021-09-29 18:40 +0200
      Re: "Proper" filesystem for Debian installed on a flash drive Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2021-09-29 19:50 +0200
        Re: "Proper" filesystem for Debian installed on a flash drive Nate Bargmann <n0nb@n0nb.us> - 2021-09-30 02:00 +0200
    Re: "Proper" filesystem for Debian installed on a flash drive Nate Bargmann <n0nb@n0nb.us> - 2021-09-30 04:00 +0200
      Re: "Proper" filesystem for Debian installed on a flash drive Reco <recoverym4n@enotuniq.net> - 2021-09-30 09:10 +0200
      Re: "Proper" filesystem for Debian installed on a flash drive Anssi Saari <as@sci.fi> - 2021-10-01 08:10 +0200
  Re: "Proper" filesystem for Debian installed on a flash drive David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2021-09-29 23:40 +0200
    Re: "Proper" filesystem for Debian installed on a flash drive Nate Bargmann <n0nb@n0nb.us> - 2021-09-30 02:10 +0200
  Re: "Proper" filesystem for Debian installed on a flash drive Marco Möller <talby@debianlists.mobilxpress.net> - 2021-09-30 22:20 +0200
    Re: "Proper" filesystem for Debian installed on a flash drive Nate Bargmann <n0nb@n0nb.us> - 2021-10-01 03:10 +0200
      Re: "Proper" filesystem for Debian installed on a flash drive "Rick Thomas" <rick.thomas@pobox.com> - 2021-10-01 04:00 +0200
        Re: "Proper" filesystem for Debian installed on a flash drive Marco Möller <talby@debianlists.mobilxpress.net> - 2021-10-01 18:20 +0200
    USB memory stick quality [was: "Proper" filesystem for Debian  installed on a flash drive] <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2021-10-01 08:50 +0200
      Re: USB memory stick quality [was: "Proper" filesystem for Debian  installed on a flash drive] Cindy Sue Causey <butterflybytes@gmail.com> - 2021-10-01 12:00 +0200
        Re: USB memory stick quality [was: "Proper" filesystem for Debian  installed on a flash drive] Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@panix.com> - 2021-10-01 13:30 +0200
          Re: USB memory stick quality [was: "Proper" filesystem for Debian  installed on a flash drive] <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2021-10-01 13:50 +0200

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