On 08/19/2013 10:34 AM, John Jason Jordan wrote: > > I bought a SanDisk Cruzer once several years ago. It came with some > kind of software (called U2, if memory serves) that flashed a window on > your screen every time it was mounted, proclaiming the virtues of > SanDisk and how clever I was to have chosen it. It was impossible > to remove it, at least no one I consulted could come up with a way to > defeat it. Eventually I went to SanDisk's web site and discovered that > they had so many complaints from users that they made a web-based > removal utility. And it was not just me - once at the Clinic someone > had one of these, and luckily I had bookmarked the page for the removal > utility. > > Ever since I have avoided SanDisk.
Ah yes. The clueless marketing department strikes again. > About a year and a half ago I was in Fry's where I spotted a 32 GB USB > 3.0 thumb drive by Patriot. It was marked down to only $20, a decent > price even today. When I got it home I figured out why it was marked > down. They had formatted it NTFS instead of the usual FAT32. After a > quick reformat it worked fine. > > Before you give your money to Amazon check out Fry's because they > sometimes have deals like I found. One reason I'm going to Amazon is that I need something else from them and want to get the value of the order up over $25 to get the free shipping. (What I need is around $10, but the shipping is close to $9!) Thanks for the info. -- Regards, Dick Steffens _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
