On Mon, 2009-08-10 at 13:02 -0700, Mike Noyes wrote: > On Mon, 2009-08-10 at 14:39 -0500, Ralph Green wrote: > > This is pretty interesting. I thought no one was making them with > > write protect anymore. I have been using a USB to SD card adapter and > > SD cards, because the SD cards usually have a write protect switch. > > Now, I wonder if any of these write protectable USB drives use good NAND > > memory. Most of them these days are MLC(junk), instead of SLC. None of > > the drives in this list said anything in their specs about the type of > > flash chips they are using. Do you know any that use SLC(Single Level > > Cell) and have a write protect switch? If they were close to reasonably > > priced, I'd have to go buy a few. > > Ralph, > I suggest you contact Kanguru and Imation directly, and ask them about > the NAND memory they use. -snip-
Ralph, >From what I can tell, it looks like the Imation Pivot and Kanguru Defender Pro use SLC. http://www.google.com/search?q=Imation+Pivot+NAND+SLC http://www.imation.com/en/Imation-Products/USB-Flash-Drives--Accessories/Pivot-Flash-Drive/ http://www.google.com/search?q=Kanguru+Defender+Pro+NAND+SLC http://www.kanguru.com/defenderpro.html -- Mike Noyes <mhnoyes at users.sourceforge.net> http://sourceforge.net/users/mhnoyes/ SF.net Projects: leaf, sourceforge/sitedocs ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leaf-user mailing list: leaf-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user Support Request -- http://leaf-project.org/
