(11-29-2016, 10:49 PM)Shannon Wrote:

(11-29-2016, 10:30 PM)CatMan Wrote: Hi Shannon!

How is V3.0.1-A coming along?

I am still performing a very thorough triple check of the script. We are currently about half way done.

(11-30-2016, 12:07 AM)Shannon Wrote:

(11-30-2016, 12:05 AM)Cozy Wrote: Hmm, I've had USBs that have lasted me years, and I use them regularly.

Windows and USB keys... and USB cables... apparently don't like me. I replace my USB keys from failure to mount, and loss of data, two or three times a year. I have three of them on my keychain right now, and only one works. I have to buy another.

Not impressed with them as a single source of data storage so far. Maybe if I spent more money I would be. But I'm not buying cheap stuff now...

(11-30-2016, 12:14 AM)Cozy Wrote:

(11-30-2016, 12:07 AM)Shannon Wrote:

(11-30-2016, 12:05 AM)Cozy Wrote: Hmm, I've had USBs that have lasted me years, and I use them regularly.

Windows and USB keys... and USB cables... apparently don't like me. I replace my USB keys from failure to mount, and loss of data, two or three times a year. I have three of them on my keychain right now, and only one works. I have to buy another.

Not impressed with them as a single source of data storage so far. Maybe if I spent more money I would be. But I'm not buying cheap stuff now...

I think Kingstons the most reliable. There's been many of those in my house and they've only broken because of physical damage.

(11-30-2016, 12:30 AM)CatMan Wrote: I've used Kingston before and they've never failed me, and I'm literally using my Sandisk one right now that I've also had forever. Neither brand has failed me once. I'd recommend either of those and you should be golden.

(11-30-2016, 12:38 AM)Shannon Wrote:

(11-30-2016, 12:30 AM)CatMan Wrote: I've used Kingston before and they've never failed me, and I'm literally using my Sandisk one right now that I've also had forever. Neither brand has failed me once. I'd recommend either of those and you should be golden.

I have had three dead SanDisks.

Hopefully Kingston performs.

I'm thinking about buying two 512 gig or terabyte USB disks and just backing up the whole computer to them.

(11-30-2016, 12:40 AM)CatMan Wrote:

(11-30-2016, 12:38 AM)Shannon Wrote:

(11-30-2016, 12:30 AM)CatMan Wrote: I've used Kingston before and they've never failed me, and I'm literally using my Sandisk one right now that I've also had forever. Neither brand has failed me once. I'd recommend either of those and you should be golden.

I have had three dead SanDisks.

Hopefully Kingston performs.

I'm thinking about buying two 512 gig or terabyte USB disks and just backing up the whole computer to them.

Surprised you had issues with Sandisks, wow.

Yeah I use terabyte USB drives. Just bought a Seagate 3TB the other day actually. They're fantastic.

(11-30-2016, 01:01 AM)Alpha360 Wrote: I bought 3 Kingston usb drive, each 8GB about a year ago. After a week to a month they all died one after the other. I guess I was "unlucky".
I'm always surprised by how much every brand fails even the most reliable and how the IT field is so unreliable.
There is always some kind of unknown bug that seems impossible to happen from time to time or something that isn't supposed to fail but fails. Which remind me that nothing is 100% reliable.
I saw some bugs that made me crazy when I was studying IT. I think it's a bit like poker, there is scientific rating to how much something is supposed to happen, some mathematics rules. But when it comes to reality those rules doesn't really works. By that I means how many times I have seen someone been "unlucky" and some that are almost always lucky.
Those probability rules are so unreliable.

(11-30-2016, 01:01 AM)Alpha360 Wrote: I bought 3 Kingston usb drive, each 8GB about a year ago. After a week to a month they all died one after the other. I guess I was "unlucky".
I'm always surprised by how much every brand fails even the most reliable and how the IT field is so unreliable.
There is always some kind of unknown bug that seems impossible to happen from time to time or something that isn't supposed to fail but fails. Which remind me that nothing is 100% reliable.
I saw some bugs that made me crazy when I was studying IT. I think it's a bit like poker, there is scientific rating to how much something is supposed to happen, some mathematics rules. But when it comes to reality those rules doesn't really works. By that I means how many times I have seen someone been "unlucky" and some that are almost always lucky.
Those probability rules are so unreliable.

(11-30-2016, 01:32 AM)Cozy Wrote: Well I think there's a variable we're missing here, what about the fact that you keep them on a key chain, it's probably exposed to different temperatures throughout the day (Florida weather to ac in a grocery store or what have you), and then it may be clashes with keys, I've always just kept them in my pocket or book bag, and they've never failed me.

I have a sandisk that doesn't perform well when I'm playing music from it, but other than that it keeps files together and easy to access.

Come to think of it though, every time I've had a USB 16 gb or over they've always broken in some way, maybe a coincidence.

I think if you need something over 32gb might as well get a hard drive, all that information in one tiny place would make me nervous. Unless the scripts are so big they need gigs of space.