On Fri, 2005-05-13 at 14:26 -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Fri, May 13, 2005 at 02:21:23PM -0400, Michael H. Warfield wrote: > > Funny you should mention SanDisk. Maybe the newer ones have gotten > > better but the CF cards I used in my PDA were mixes of the SanDisk 128 > > Meg and SimpleTech 128 Meg. Burned up several before I realized it was > > the nightly backup program that was eating them and I didn't notice any > > difference between the brands. I don't know what controller was in the > > SimpleTech CF cards. Any way to tell short of dismantling them? > Not really. I believe sandisk has wear leveling on the 201 series CF > cards and on their new generation CF/SD for sure they have it (and > unfortunately for us they discontinued industrial temperature in the new > line so we have had to look elsewhere for CF cards). Par for the course... > Unfortunately a lot of what is sold to consumers at retail is cheap > crap. :) You won't get any argument from me there! > Len Sorensen Latest things I've just started playing with are these "Intelligent Sticks" or "I Sticks". They look like a chip, similar in form factor to the memory sticks, but slide into the open half of a USB jack, even though the contact pads wouldn't look like a good match. No connector shell, so they're really flat. I wonder just how "Intelligent" they are. I'm bet'n that wear leveling ain't part of it. But they are cute chips that fit in a wallet easily and can boot a fully encrypted laptop. Once working, they'll almost never need rewriting to any large extent. The 1G chips can hold a complete OS like Knoppix or Basilisk (the 512Meg chips too, with a lot of squeezing). Mike -- Michael H. Warfield | (770) 985-6132 | [email protected] /\/\|=mhw=|\/\/ | (678) 463-0932 | http://www.wittsend.com/mhw/ NIC whois: MHW9 | An optimist believes we live in the best of all PGP Key: 0xDF1DD471 | possible worlds. A pessimist is sure of it!
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