On 08/19/2013 10:05 AM, Fred James wrote: > Dick Steffens wrote: >> Any horror stories related to flash drives? > Personally I stick with Kingston ... only had one problem with one, and > Kingston RMA'd it with no hassle ... I have 4 Kingstons on my desk right now > 1 8GB > 2 32GB > 1 64GB > All of these are USB 2.0 > > No experience as yet with installing or running OS from flash drive ... > soon, though, soon ... that won't help you right now, eh? > > Transfer rate ... my personal experence ... > Had an older Intel P4 ... everything USB was dog slow > Got a newer Intel Quad-core i3-3220 ... USB moves pretty well > > Hope that helps
Thanks. Good to know about positive experiences with Kingston. On 08/19/2013 10:14 AM, Dale Snell wrote: > I looked at the Amazon web page, and the reviews seem to be for the > entire line of that style of SanDisk thumb drives. While most of the > reviews (and there are over 2000 of them) are positive, most of > them do note that the drive is slow. It looks to me as if that whole > series of drives is slow. From what I know of SanDisk's reputation, > it will probably work well. Just very slowly. Okay. That confirms the feeling I was getting. On 08/19/2013 10:26 AM, King Beowulf wrote: > Brands I've used with no issues: > Sandisk > PNY > Toshiba > Duracell > > As for the SanDisk Cruzer reviews: > 1. Check for true USB2.0 as opposed to USB 1.1 > 2. Writing is always slower that reading > 3. I've found that Linux read/write speeds much faster than WinXP/7 > 4. Using the security function is SLOW. Not an issue in Linux (reformat). Great. Thanks for all the good ideas. I just talked with the folks at Eco Binary and learned that the Lenovo boxes have 512 MB RAM and AMD Sempron 2.0 chips. Several of the recommendations I've found on various MythTV sites recommend Intel dual core processors. So I probably won't be getting one of those Lenovos. However, they said they will be getting more Lenovos out on the floor later in the week, and they might be a different configuration. I don't think I mentioned planning to build some Myth boxes. I think I'll still look into using a USB flash drive for the install media, though, even though the box I install on might have an optical drive. Saves burning a DVD and can be reused. -- Regards, Dick Steffens _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
