On Sunday, May 28th, 2023 at 12:37 AM, Keith Lofstrom <kei...@kl-ic.com> wrote: > ... > If any of you wants to deeply examine one of these drives, > I would be glad to give one to you, in return for data and > opinions about that data. To do the job right, you might > need a variable 5-volt"-ish" power supply and a temperature > oven; some pages may fail near spec limits. I might loan > a power supply, but my lab oven is too big to move.
On Mon, May 29, 2023 at 06:18:26PM +0000, Ben Koenig wrote: > > Maybe bring some of these to the upcoming Un-PLUG meeting > so we have something to play with! Does the physical label > on the drive actually say 16GB? Yes it does; here is the Amazon page: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01MCY4L2R Same white "PNY" and "16GB" on the clear plastic sliding cover. +/- photo touchup and shiny black plastic, the 10 drives I have look the same. The clear cover has three "crisp" detent positions; I can't imagine a knockoff with that kind of mechanical precision, especially one offering more data space than advertised. I have 6 unused drives, still in their plastic wrappers. The others are in use. ----- Indeed, I was thinking about attending Un-PLUG, though transportation afterwards may be an issue. So here's the deal - I will trade one of these drives for a brief ride to the downtown end of my Beaverton-bound bus lines, or two for a ride to east Beaverton, and each of the remainders for a new-ish name-brand 16GB USB-2.0 drive, one each per curious investigator/customer. Mostly I want shared investigation and explanation; why more not less? But I also need some of the drives for migrating data from ancient apps on many distros (some >15 years old!) to new Debian and modern apps. That might make an interesting linux-archeology PLUG presentation someday, assuming I survive this process. And that I survive the next variant of COVID, which a billion "isolation freed" Chinese are breeding now. Keith L. -- Keith Lofstrom kei...@keithl.com
