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 unlimited lifetime replacement policy on their flash drives and > RAM products. The replacements have much faster speed, haven't failed > yet, and the next to last one they replaced with a 32 gig. The 4th one > took longer to die, got replaced with another 16 gig. Must have been > sold out of 16 gig when they sent me the 32 gig. > Because of the wear leveling, I have always over provisioned the SSD's so my first buys were the 40GB versions, zero failures so far.
I bought my first SSD's when newegg was peddling 40GB ADATA's for around $35. One of them was put into the Dell running my G0704 at least 2 years ago, slow writes only if the write was over a gig in one gulp. Give it 10 minutes to do its thing and the speed was back to sata-ii reads and 600mhz for small writes. Lots of re-writes as I changed the interface and added more gingerbread to the gui since. Still going like spinning rust but a lot faster. Those I've put on usb adapters have been hard on the adapters, but when the adapter fails, a fresh cable/adapter has always found a good drive with all data intact. I've some more of the 240GB ADATA's, enough to put one in every machine, but with my heart attack, the missus's further deterioration, etc, progress there has been slow. Weather is just above 63F today, so I'll probably drag out my cutoff saw and work on making a hanger for a 400 lb electric hoist to lift the BS-1 on and off the G0704's table. I'm hopeing the G0704 has the moxie to move that extra 150 lbs w/o changing to bigger nema-34 motors and drilling everything for 1 shot lube. The XY motors are only nema-23's at 470 oz/in now. Or hang and wire up a <$40 ups, 650WA, to the rpi4 running the Sheldon. I'm not really relishing cutting and welding with a mig in a 20 mph breeze. You can't keep flood ga$ on the work when its blowing that hard. Sigh... Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
