Re: flashing usb sticks?

On 3/15/2022 10:28 PM, bad sector wrote:
> 
> around 50gb with bright flashing led when active?
> 

There hasn't been a decent design in a long time.

The 8GB OCZ RALLY2, now that had a nice LED. The LED only
flashed when the device was active. It behaved like you
expect an activity LED to behave.

Some of the premium flash drives now, they're fast... but
have no LED. The same company also makes ones with LEDs, but
the LED has a "breathing pattern", which serves no purpose.
Then the user has to distinguish between "flashing and breathing"
versus "breathing alone".

SanDisk Extreme Go USB 3.1 Flash Drive 64GB

SDCZ800-064G      Read 200MB/sec Write 100MB/sec Transparent slider (for LED)

https://www.amazon.ca/Sandisk-Extreme-Type-Flash-Drive/dp/B01NARBPI7

Ones that come with the opaque slider, Sandisk Extreme USB (word Go is missing,
those don't have a LED.

This makes the selection process pretty finicky. If I was
buying, I would use my "usual algorithm", car drive to computer store,
get clerk to show me two or more models, examine the slider
and so on.

The packaging will not indicate whether a LED is present,
whether it has the annoying "breathing" light pattern or not,
so you cannot rely on the packaging for such details.

These are pigs that are mostly made of lipstick. Unfortunately.
Nobody knows how to design anything.

This one, for example, doesn't have a LED, and the write speed
information is contradictory. Mentions "380" and "150", and to
me, "100" is more believable.

https://www.amazon.ca/SanDisk-SDCZ880-128G-G46-Extreme-128GB-Solid/dp/B01MU8TZRV

And if there is even the remotest chance of it having a *plastic*
connector on it, don't buy it. I had a stick with a plastic barrel,
fail on the first day. The bullshit description does not help me
decide whether it has a proper barrel. You should only buy USB
sticks with the chrome steel standard barrel on the end, as those
are good for the rated 5000 insertion cycles. The barrels on chrome
steel, do not deform on insertion. The attempt to describe a "metallic finish"
is marketing bullshit for "yes sirree bob, I is made of plastic".

https://www.amazon.ca/SanDisk-Extreme-Type-Flash-Drive/dp/B08KSJ144R/

I've even bought a pair of identical USB sticks, and one
had a LED, the second did not. One was made in China, one
in Malaysia or such. Mixed together at the store presumably.

A lotta lipstick, not much pig.

    Paul