lol at this turning into a show us your usb sticks thread.
I love that thing. I seriously hope they didn't fuck them up as OP seems to indicate. That one is over a year old.
Show me your what
Giggity
You should change the title to "Show us your stick(s) / PNY USB buyers beware."
And so it was
Patriot Rage XT 8GB
Works like a charm for years, no idea when i got it.
Write speeds vary from the mobo, capable of 20+ easy and is only 2.0
I got my 64 gigabyte Kingston hyperx USB stick on sale at least 3 or 4 years ago now
and it's still murders 250 megabytes a second
Other than the high implosion rate, how would you say you liked the performance of the filesystem? From personal experience, NTFS is great, but it's not only outdated, but has very poor performance and optimizations for non-moving storage devices. FAT32 does poorly with super large drives for the most part. exFAT seems okay. If you disabling write caching to the drive, it wont have issues with improper ejections as far as I know. Anyway, I'm rambling. How was your experience despite the implosion issues?
No real issues. It does it's job. It works on most Androids, Windows and Mac. If it didn't implode and fuck up an entire 500GB partition then I wouldn't have any issues with it.
Yeah. It's all fun and games until your filesystem sneaks into houses at night and murders people. Speaking if which, that t-shirt thread... @logan "It's all fun and games until exFAT joins the party." Maybe party... Or partition...
Ehh... We could do better.
Hmm... Hey, I have a question, I know FAT16 is a thing. I actually use it for some legacy devices. But was there ever a FAT8?
Yes. There was also a FAT12. FAT16 is just called FAT by Windows now.
Go on a diet
Ah cool. Yeah, I'm so used to calling it FAT16, I haven't gotten on the lingo train. Thanks.
FAT32 is my exFAT. I'm with Ext4 now.
That's the thing, I am one of those 3 people that actually do safely eject USB drives.
The messages also persist even after formatting the drive, regardless of how I do it. I've tried using Windows' right-click menu, used diskpart and even Gparted. The first time I plug it into any Windows machine after a format the message pops up again. It never finds any problem, but it's getting annoying as hell.
Removing the Kingstons and Sandisks from the equasion as well as all the sticks I haven't used in over a year ... leaves me with 4 or 5 sticks that I actually use on a regular basis.