OCZ Rally 2 4GB has worked fine for me for a year now. If you go for the OCZ Rally 2 Turbo, it has higher random write speeds(faster boot, opening apps) but I'm not sure about reliabilty. OCZ has a good reputation for good reliability on most of it's products.
Using an USB->SD adapter with one of those recommended SD cards might be a good idea. Some look like pen drives. Mitch told me that micro Sandisk SDHC 4GB and Transcend micro SDHC were behaving well in the stress test and I can also say the same for the Sandisk 4GB SDHC card, class 2. Best regards, Tiago Marques On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 12:23 AM, S Page <skierp...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 3:10 AM, Mitch Bradley <w...@laptop.org> wrote: > >> b) If you must construct a fixed partition layout for use on multiple >> different devices, align each partition on at least a 4MiB boundary. >> That means that you "waste" 4M for the partition map (one 512-byte >> sector padded out to a 4 MiB boundary, but oh well). For devices 2 GiB >> or less - the previous generation - maybe 1 MiB alignment would be okay, >> as such devices are likely to have smaller erase blocks. Those numbers >> seem "safe" to me. > > 1. > Do the F11 / SoaS "overwrite your USB/SD device" XO images follow this > guideline? > cat soas??xo.2gremovable.tar.lzma | lzma -dc - | tar xf - -O > /dev/sdX > > (The way a boot image is created and distributed as multiple > monolithic 379+ MB files seems crazy -- surely it's just a collection > of files, tweaks to the existing MBR, and some disk partitioning and > FS layout requirements. But that's a different discussion. ;-) ) > > 2. > The old Fedora 10 on XO project specifically recommended SanDisk > Extreme III SD cards. Can anyone suggest generally-good brands of USB > flash drives? > > (I have a cheap USB flash drive that has "gone crazy" after two > /dev/sdb reblastings; often usb-creator leaves it in a bizarre state > and dosfsck reports hundreds of errors it can't repair. Weird.) > > Thanks for all you do! > > -- > =S Page > _______________________________________________ > Devel mailing list > Devel@lists.laptop.org > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel > _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel