On Thu, Nov 06, 2014 at 07:53:16AM +0800, 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson wrote: > > OK next trip to Taichung I will pick up some 'real brand name' cards and > card readers and promise to stop complaining until then!
See the "Fake Cards" in Linaro's Flash Card Survey: https://wiki.linaro.org/WorkingGroups/KernelArchived/Projects/FlashCardSurvey Using cheap flash cards found in the checkout aisle of a MicroCenter or at some flea market or street market really is false economy. Buy a brand name card from a reputable vendor, with a credit card (so you make sure you can get your money back if you get a fake / scammed card), and then test it after you get it. In particular, I recommend test its power fail resiliance, because even most SSD's are not power fail protected[1]. Otherwise, you get what you pay for --- what's the value of your time, and the value of your data if you save a few dollars on crappy flash? Cheers, - Ted [1] http://lkcl.net/reports/ssd_analysis.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org