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Originally Posted by Dngrsone
Well, that was in the early days of Flash... I actually wore out that Kingston 512KB stick three times and got it replaced under warranty each time before it got lost... by then, the smallest one readily available was a 2GB stick, which still resides in my pocket, though I prefer using 16 or 32GB drives now.
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That's actually not a surprise. Kingston is one the the budget lines, and you get what you pay for.
There are about five outfits that actually make the flash media used in the drive. Everyone who sells flash drives buys media from one of them and puts it in their own packaging with their own logo.
Years back, I bought a PNY SD card for use in a PDA, and did some benchmarks. The PNY had
read speeds comparable to the Sandisk and Lexar Media SD cards I already had, but
write speeds were an order of magnitude slower. (It took so long to perform the write test I thought the device had hung and was about to reset it.) It turned out the drive uses Toshiba media. A correspondent on a PDA focused web board saw the same issue with Kingston SD cards, which also used Toshiba media.
(I also had an Adata card fail when the plastic packaging did - the glue holding the halves together failed.)
I decided to stick to Sandisk, which is one of the outfits that does make its own flash. It cost a bit more, but I had less quality worries.
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Dennis