On Thu, Nov 06, 2014 at 07:53:16AM +0800, 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson wrote:
>
> OK next trip to Taichung I will pick up some 'real brand name' cards and
> card readers and promise to stop complaining until then!
See the "Fake Cards" in Linaro's Flash Card Survey:
https://wiki.linaro.org/WorkingGroups/KernelArchived/Projects/FlashCardSurvey
Using cheap flash cards found in the checkout aisle of a MicroCenter
or at some flea market or street market really is false economy.
Buy a brand name card from a reputable vendor, with a credit card (so
you make sure you can get your money back if you get a fake / scammed
card), and then test it after you get it. In particular, I recommend
test its power fail resiliance, because even most SSD's are not power
fail protected[1].
Otherwise, you get what you pay for --- what's the value of your time,
and the value of your data if you save a few dollars on crappy flash?
Cheers,
- Ted
[1] http://lkcl.net/reports/ssd_analysis.html
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