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General Software Discussion / Re: some useful but less-known software. share your list!!!
« Last post by Contro on February 25, 2019, 09:50 AM »I am afraid this is pure addiction !!!!!!
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Heat is to be expected when a lot of reading and writing onto any drive, whatever form or shape.Recently I bought micro SD in AliExpress from SanDisk. Microdrive have similar prices to this manufacturer in this product.
Most are designed to get rid of this excess heat sufficiently fast enough, while not being too uncomfortable to carry around in a pocket. If a drive does not heat up, perhaps not much reading and/or writing is going on. Unless there is a active cooling element on your drive there, temperature will vary, depending what you are doing on it.
There are pen drives that show up as very big, but actually have (much) less capacity. Some even apply the trick that when a file is written to that drive with a size that exceeds the actual capacity (but not the reported capacity), it just starts to overwrite the file from the beginning of the drive. So if you generate a file with numbers that follow up on each other, you will know quickly enough if your pen drive either fails to generate the specified size or that it overwrites the file from the beginning.
Simple, but effective check to see if you have bought a drive with the promised capacity or not.
Often there are other indicators that should make you wonder if it is too good to be true. Take a look at differences in font of the sticker that indicates the size. Yes, some vendors are cheap enough to use generic stickers on which the promised capacity is added in a not matching font. Same is true for other forms of packaging.
But that capacity for that price? From a not so reputable source? Yeah, that sure sounds like it is way too good to be true.
-Shades (February 17, 2019, 08:18 AM)
generate text files of any given size-Shades (February 15, 2019, 08:31 AM)
H2testw is the way to go, read this review of that and similar tools.Running !!!!-Ath (February 15, 2019, 12:39 PM)
We'll see.P.D. I am expecting to receive pendrives of 256 GB for 3.47 euros....Sounds too good to be true, you're likely to get a drive with significantly smaller capacity, but a hacked firmware that reports more storage than actually is usable.-Contro (February 15, 2019, 04:35 AM)
I wouldn't even bother buying it, but if you do, I'd recommend filling it and checking all the files' integrity afterwards.-ConstanceJill (February 15, 2019, 11:29 AM)
There are tools that generate text files of any given size. you should create one such text file directly on that drive and see if the resulting file messes up.Owwww. I am testing now with H2Testw
That would be the simplest test to see if the capacity is as promised.-Shades (February 15, 2019, 08:31 AM)
TextWorx is updated to version 1.3!Running to try !!!!!!!
Ath - I've added your base64 encode string function.
Also, the other casing effects are added.-BGM (February 13, 2019, 10:48 AM)
But the usb-otg pendrive I propose have 256 GB storage !!!!!! for a minimum price !!!!4-Contro (February 11, 2019, 06:49 AM)
It's also a no name brand selling for less than 10% of the cost of a trusted well known brand name 256GB USB 3.0 flash drive.
The words "too good to be true" come to mind.
What exactly are you trying to achieve?
At the moment it looks like the cheapest possible storage option at the cost of your data.
As someone who is rather fatalistic when it comes to my own data, (ie. Shit happens), there are some roads even I won't travel down in the pursuit of cheap storage.-4wd (February 11, 2019, 07:12 AM)
This is a wonderful adapter !!!!!. But the usb-otg pendrive I propose have 256 GB storage !!!!!! for a minimum price !!!!4Ejem. What do you think about this ?-Contro (February 09, 2019, 04:31 AM)
https://www.ebay.com...er-Cool/264013985876
I have one, USB, USB C, and Micro-B - put your own uSD card in or plug in a normal flash drive, USB HDD, etc.-4wd (February 09, 2019, 10:32 PM)
We had a low-key court wedding -- just the two of us, and just the way we wanted itIn the front !!!!!!!!!!!
Some photos from the marriage/wedding:
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In the 13 years of DonationCoder, I've been pretty reticent about talking about my own personal life.Please put a pin or sticky to go to the front. I like to see happy people !!!!!!!!!!!
It's not that I don't view everyone here as family -- it's just a general shyness and reluctance to talk about personal details.
But I wanted to share with my donationcoder family that I am getting married next week.
It's definitely not something I expected to be doing a year ago, but we found ourselves in a rather unusual situation after a couple years of dating where we were either going to be separated on different continents or try to make it work as a married couple, and we've finally decided on the latter. After almost 50 years it's a very different kind of adventure we're embarking on, and I'm excited about it and wanted to share it with all of you...
(I hope this explains why I may not have been on the forum as much as usual over the last couple of months -- but I hope to be back to my normal activity later this month).
It's just a court wedding so don't expect any fancy photos, and there's no reception to attend, but here is a photo of us during a recent hiking trip (I'm on the left!):
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Bonus points: Can anyone identify where the photo was taken?-mouser (October 05, 2018, 03:41 PM)
