On Jan 29, 2007, at 11:35, thinkpad-request@stderr.org wrote:
> Just never count on them being 100% reliable, because they are not.
> Failure
> is unpredictable in these devices... particularly with Compact
> Flash... the
> flash drive is capable of sudden failure, and the reader can quit in
> the
> middle of something. We have them brought into our shop with valuable
> data
> in trouble frequently. They are no where close to the reliability of
> a hard
> drive or CD burn.
Ray
Have you seen problems with CF cards in external readers or cards in
adapters plugged into the PC card slot (or both)?
The only issue I've had with solid state memory was a smart media card
in an adapter plugged into the card slot on a Mac 520 laptop.
I think the directory structure got corrupted, some years later I was
able to recover the pictures using a Win XP utility (so far the only
application I have that demands XP)
Andrew in Ann Arbor
technology is the answer, what was the question?
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