[clue-tech] linux on USB memory stick

[David L. Willson]

Avoid the MicroCenter drives that have the U3 symbol on them.  They'll
surprise you (in a bad way) when you go to share data with your
Windows-using friends.  Too smart by half...  Fixable, but only in
Windows.

www.u3.com
www.u3.com/uninstall

On Sun, 2007-11-04 at 18:52 -0700, Dennis J Perkins wrote:
> I wouldn't buy one of those.  I bought a Kensington on sale.
> 
> On Sun, 2007-11-04 at 16:32 -0700, Dan Poler wrote:
> > On Sun, 2007-11-04 at 16:14 -0700, Dennis J Perkins wrote:
> > > I bought a 4GB stick from Microcenter for about $35 yesterday.  Sony's
> > > 16GB stick was tempting but I didn't want to spend $180. 
> > 
> > Word of warning - those store-branded Micro Center sticks are
> > s-l-o-w ... I have a 2 GB that is about a quarter to a third the speed
> > of another one I have (SanDisk). 
> > 
> > Also interesting to note that they're somewhat weird in that they don't
> > have things like a vendor or device identification string -- I noticed
> > that when I was writing udev rules a while back. 
> > 
> > Wouldn't trust it further than I could throw it. :-)
> > 
> > dap
> > 
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