Re: flashing usb sticks?

On 3/16/22 01:45, Paul wrote:
> 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.

THAT's the way they should all be dammit!

> 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.

Nowadays when I ask a clerk s/he immediately goes blank,
with that "do I look like google?" expression. I live in the boonies
and here the problem is amplified a thousandfold :-(



> 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.

HOW TRUE!!!  eye-candy, bullshit, scam-on-scam

 
> 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/

The entire USB interface whorehouse is already nothing but a huge scam. It shudda been put out of its misery years ago

 
> 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

Thanks for the input, always a pleasure reading someone who knows what he's talking about :-)