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. 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... > But the wind of 20+ mph they forecast never arrived, just a touch of rain. But my back didn't feel like wrestling steel and the cutoff saw, so I installed a small ups to keep the pi up while the generator is starting. A $35 CyberPower refurb. Installed a hand built nut so I could watch it. I've got to chuckle a bit though, it can't see the pi as a load, reporting load as 0. But it should hold up the pi plenty long enough till power comes back on even if the generator fails. Unless its down for 3 or 4 days. That could and has happened in the last decade, one outage was 11 days! Those of us with generators and fuel to run them had drop cords strung to most of the neighborhood fridges. I had and still have a 6.5kw, and ran about 30 gallons of gas thru it that time.
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