On 01.10.21 03:37, Rick Thomas wrote:
On Thu, Sep 30, 2021, at 6:02 PM, Nate Bargmann wrote:
* On 2021 30 Sep 15:15 -0500, Marco Möller wrote:
SUMMARY:
I never observed problems with ext4 on my since 4 years heavily used USB
pen-drive.
Good Luck!
Marco
Thanks Marco!
That is a very useful review of your experience. Your taking the time
to write it up is greatly appreciated.
- Nate
Marco, would you be kind enough to share the manufacturer and other specs of
your USB pen drive?
Thanks!
Rick
In detail, I am currently, since 10 month, running as my daily work
horse a pen-drive:
SAMSUNG Flash Drive Fit, 128 GB, USB 3.1
Vendor ID 0x90c (Silicon Motion, Inc. - Taiwan (formerly Feiya
Technology Corp.))
Product ID 0x1000 (Flash Drive)
Speed 5.000 Mbit/s, Channels 0, Max. Packet Size 9
This is the one which has only "the small 128 GB" availabe for me.
I before for this heavy job used for at least 1.5 years a pen-drive:
SanDisk Ultra Fit, 128 GB, USB 2
This is the one which has "the big 128 GB" available for me, and it is
still used from time to time, although not heavily anymore since I
changed to a meanwhile affordable USB 3 pen-drive last winter (see above).
I before for this heavy job used for 2 years a pen-drive:
SanDisk Ultra Fit, 64 GB, USB 2.
Not so heavily used, mainly for storage with a lot of reading but almost
no writing to it I also have in use for many years (5 or 6?) now some
pen-drives:
SanDisk Ultra Fit, 32 GB, USB 2.
SanDisk Ultra Fit, 16 GB, USB 2.
All these SanDisk Ultra Fit are this very tiny pen-drives which you
hardly see to be inserted to the USB port. Really, I never had a problem
with them. Well you noticed that I like this tiny design, it fits nicely
into my pocket not letting me carry around any laptop anymore since many
years now. I simply take advantage of old hardware (PC or laptops) which
others do not want anymore and placed that hardware at my different
locations.
After the first 16 GB pen-drive of this SanDisk Ultra Flat model worked
fine for me I did not change to another model until I couldn't find a
USB3 version of them in the local stores (I could get hands on a laptop
having a USB 3 port) and therefore then went with the other brand
instead of making a big science out of it. I simply trust that my backup
plan will please not let me stand in the rain when really in need of it
and not only testing that it should work.
The only 2 pen-drives which I lost because of hardware failure have been
one (long time ago) 4 GB drive from the supermarket (the brand name of
this drive I do not remember), and a 32 GB drive of brand "EMS" (also
from a supermarket), if I remember the name correctly. The EMS drive was
by the way formatted with VFAT. I still have in use, although seldom,
some very old 4 GB drives which I use to place some Live Linux Distros
or installation medium on it. But these can not be considered to be
heavily in use at all. However, at least their shelf live time
apparently is quite long, they are all older than 5 to 6 years already
and seem to still work fine.
Best regards
Marco
