On 2025-02-19, Philip Webb wrote:
>> If they start asking questions, just say: "I tried to format them on
>> my PC. It ran for 10 hours, then failed". It doesn't matter what they ask
>> apart from "cash refund, replacement or credit?", that's your answer.
>
> No, you're both quite wrong. "Both s
On Tuesday 18 February 2025 21:18:03 Greenwich Mean Time Grant Edwards wrote:
> On 2025-02-18, Philip Webb wrote:
> > 250218 Frank Steinmetzger wrote:
> >> I recommend an external USB case with an NVMe SSD inside.
> >> This may not be as compact and not as cheap,
> >> but they are much much much f
250219 Grant Edwards wrote:
> On 2025-02-18, Michael wrote:
>> I would refrain from stating anything which could well be
>> outside their sphere of knowledge or understanding.
>> I would not mention Linux, ext2, gparted
>> or anything exotic for the average MSWindows user.
>> "I just cannot format
On 2/18/25 16:13, Michael wrote:
For reliable NAND flash storage on a modern PC which can make use of the
higher speeds, I wholeheartedly agree the M.2 small form factor SSD drive
within a USB enclosure must be a consideration. Or one of the external SATA
SSDs which are physically bigger, with a
On Tuesday 18 February 2025 18:54:07 Greenwich Mean Time Philip Webb wrote:
> So yes, at least 1 of the sticks is unusable & probably both.
> I can take/mail them back to the store & ask them to test them with Linux
> & refund my CAD if they confirm they're defective.
I would refrain from stati
I recently upgraded my system, and the new motherboard is an ASRock
X570 Phantom Gaming 4 WiFi ax. I started to update lm_sensors for this
new hardware, but cannot find any appropriate config file. I did find
a file for a different ASRock X570 motherboard which I'm slowly trying
to adapt
On 2025-02-18, Michael wrote:
> On Tuesday 18 February 2025 18:54:07 Greenwich Mean Time Philip Webb wrote:
>
>> So yes, at least 1 of the sticks is unusable & probably both. I
>> can take/mail them back to the store & ask them to test them with
>> Linux & refund my CAD if they confirm they're de
On 2025-02-18, Grant Edwards wrote:
>
>> It had an M$ partition when I bought it. I replaced that with 4
>> partitions because using a 2/3.2 port took > 10 h to write a 256 GB
>> filesystem & fail, whereas it took only 2 h 45 m to write a 64 GB
>> partition & fail.
>
> There is something _serious
On Monday 17 February 2025 23:12:59 Greenwich Mean Time Frank Steinmetzger
wrote:
> Am Sun, Feb 16, 2025 at 01:41:10PM + schrieb Michael:
> > I just formatted a USB 2.0 8GB stick with mke2fs as a test. It took 46
> > seconds. Extrapolating for your 64GB partition it should take ~ 6
> > minu
On Tuesday 18 February 2025 03:46:26 Greenwich Mean Time Philip Webb wrote:
> 250217 Michael wrote:
> > It is worth mentioning the sys-block/f3 package (Fight Flash Fraud),
> > which is in Portage and can test a USB flash disk to discover if it is
> > fake. Besides the slower f3write and f3read, th
On 2025-02-18, Philip Webb wrote:
> 250218 Frank Steinmetzger wrote:
>> I recommend an external USB case with an NVMe SSD inside.
>> This may not be as compact and not as cheap,
>> but they are much much much faster and probably longer-lasting
>> than any USB stick, because their flash controllers
250218 Frank Steinmetzger wrote:
> I recommend an external USB case with an NVMe SSD inside.
> This may not be as compact and not as cheap,
> but they are much much much faster and probably longer-lasting
> than any USB stick, because their flash controllers are more sophisticated
> and the parts o
250218 Michael wrote:
-- details of using 'f3probe' snipped --
> This is good news, it confirms neither of them are counterfeit units.
> However, the 2nd stick appears to be defective. It takes almost 3.5 times
> as long than the first stick and from what we know for no good reason.
> This indi
On 2025-02-18, Philip Webb wrote:
> 250218 Grant Edwards wrote:
>> On 2025-02-18, Philip Webb wrote:
>>> So both sticks are genuine, as I would expect from that store.
>> Have you tried just doing mkfs.ext4 [options] /dev/sdb?
>> You only want one filesystem, right? Why bother with a partition t
Am Tue, Feb 18, 2025 at 12:53:42AM -0500 schrieb Philip Webb:
> 250218 Grant Edwards wrote:
> > On 2025-02-18, Philip Webb wrote:
> >> So both sticks are genuine, as I would expect from that store.
> > Have you tried just doing mkfs.ext4 [options] /dev/sdb?
> > You only want one filesystem, right?
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