Went to site, and tried to buy 3 of the 256G flashes, but on checkout it failed to support my address here in Guam (US Territory). It only seems to list the 50 states?? On 1 Jan 2022 at 0:44, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: Date sent: Sat, 1 Jan 2022 00:44:15 -0800 Subject: Re: Bad USB drive? To: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Send reply to: Community support for Fedora users <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> From: ToddAndMargo via users <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Copies to: ToddAndMargo <ToddAndMargo@xxxxxxxx> > On 12/31/21 20:35, Tim via users wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 31, 2021 at 9:10 AM Robert Moskowitz: > > > I never use flash drives for any kind of backup purposes. The things > > have multiple failures (wearing out, electronic breakdown, static > > electricity, mechanically falling apart, getting scrambled by a PC with > > poor 5Vdc power supplies on the USB ports, getting reformatted by a > > computer that couldn't read their file system, and simply getting > > lost). And they're often too small, or their filesystem can't handle > > large files. I consider them only good for sneakernet purposes. > > > > I use and sell flash drives for backup, but only Samsung's. > The rest are a joke. > > https://www.samsung.com/us/computing/memory-storage/usb-flash-drives/ > > Samsung is also the only flash drive I have come > across the can handle a storm on small file transfers. > > Speaking of 'a storm on small file transfers", I have a > fully bootable Fedora 35 install on one of them. > Tried doing it on other brands and it trashed them. > A total waste of time. > > The getting lost is an issue. So far only one > customer has lost one. Usually they put them on > some kind of key chain and store them in a fireproof > media safe. > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure