Re: [Emc-users] A heads up on a product

2020-01-10 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 10 January 2020 12:13:47 Gene Heskett wrote: > On Friday 10 January 2020 06:17:01 Gregg Eshelman via Emc-users wrote: > > I bought four 16 gig ADATA USB 3 flash drives on a really good sale > > from Newegg. Well, their write speeds were horrible, slower than > > most USB 2.0 flash drives

Re: [Emc-users] A heads up on a product

2020-01-10 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 10 January 2020 06:17:01 Gregg Eshelman via Emc-users wrote: > I bought four 16 gig ADATA USB 3 flash drives on a really good sale > from Newegg. Well, their write speeds were horrible, slower than most > USB 2.0 flash drives. One by one they all failed. Fortunately ADATA > has an unlimi

Re: [Emc-users] A heads up on a product

2020-01-10 Thread Gregg Eshelman via Emc-users
I bought four 16 gig ADATA USB 3 flash drives on a really good sale from Newegg. Well, their write speeds were horrible, slower than most USB 2.0 flash drives. One by one they all failed. Fortunately ADATA has an unlimited lifetime replacement policy on their flash drives and RAM products. The r

Re: [Emc-users] A heads up on a product

2020-01-09 Thread R C
the fact you sell a vast amount of products, build by others, is not an excuse for lack of quality of what you sell. BUT ...  not everything that technically/specs wise should work, will. Technically an SATA drive, with a  USB<-->SATA converter would work BUT for a example a laptop SATA/spi

Re: [Emc-users] A heads up on a product

2020-01-09 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 09 January 2020 21:08:27 R C wrote: > On 1/9/20 5:41 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Thursday 09 January 2020 19:13:56 R C wrote: > >> if you use USB connected drives on a Pi, and also the network, > >> you're switching > >> > >> between eth/wifi and USB "A LOT" (it uses the same > >> h

Re: [Emc-users] A heads up on a product

2020-01-09 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 09 January 2020 20:39:50 Jon Elson wrote: > On 01/09/2020 11:24 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Greetings all; > > > > Back in the middle of May 2019, I ordered, from newegg.com, three > > 240GB SSD's and 3 rosewill usb-3.1 to sata adapter cables so I could > > use them as std drives on my

Re: [Emc-users] A heads up on a product

2020-01-09 Thread R C
On 1/9/20 5:41 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: On Thursday 09 January 2020 19:13:56 R C wrote: if you use USB connected drives on a Pi, and also the network, you're switching between eth/wifi and USB "A LOT" (it uses the same hardware/chipset). If you power the No wifi, its disabled. But are you

Re: [Emc-users] A heads up on a product

2020-01-09 Thread R C
I don't know,  I don't have one yet, and haven't looked into it. BUT ..  the board being low cost, low energy, and combining/multiplexing things, so I doubt it. Don'tget me wrong, it is a pretty cool/awesome board for that price , especially for doing low level stuff.  BUT a bunch is piggy ba

Re: [Emc-users] A heads up on a product

2020-01-09 Thread Jon Elson
On 01/09/2020 11:24 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: Greetings all; Back in the middle of May 2019, I ordered, from newegg.com, three 240GB SSD's and 3 rosewill usb-3.1 to sata adapter cables so I could use them as std drives on my pi's. All of the rosewell adapters have now died. Called newegg, got run

Re: [Emc-users] A heads up on a product

2020-01-09 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 09 January 2020 19:31:49 Thaddeus Waldner wrote: > > On Jan 9, 2020, at 6:13 PM, R C wrote: > > > > if you use USB connected drives on a Pi, and also the network, > > you're switching > > > > between eth/wifi and USB "A LOT" (it uses the same > > hardware/chipset). > > Has this topolo

Re: [Emc-users] A heads up on a product

2020-01-09 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 09 January 2020 19:13:56 R C wrote: > if you use USB connected drives on a Pi, and also the network, you're > switching > > between eth/wifi and USB "A LOT" (it uses the same hardware/chipset). > If you power the > No wifi, its disabled. > drives through USB that is not a good thing.

Re: [Emc-users] A heads up on a product

2020-01-09 Thread Thaddeus Waldner
> On Jan 9, 2020, at 6:13 PM, R C wrote: > > if you use USB connected drives on a Pi, and also the network, you're > switching > > between eth/wifi and USB "A LOT" (it uses the same hardware/chipset). Has this topology changed with the Pi4? > > ___

Re: [Emc-users] A heads up on a product

2020-01-09 Thread R C
if you use USB connected drives on a Pi, and also the network, you're switching between eth/wifi and USB "A LOT" (it uses the same hardware/chipset). If you power the drives through USB that is not a good thing. For modest amounts of data I just use a/the SD card (the video/photo ones can

[Emc-users] A heads up on a product

2020-01-09 Thread Gene Heskett
Greetings all; Back in the middle of May 2019, I ordered, from newegg.com, three 240GB SSD's and 3 rosewill usb-3.1 to sata adapter cables so I could use them as std drives on my pi's. All of the rosewell adapters have now died. Called newegg, got run around, hit tigerdirect and had 4 startech