Reliability of USB-based filesystems? Lack thereof?

[Christopher Browne]

On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 3:49 PM, Lennart Sorensen
<lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 06, 2008 at 02:28:25PM -0500, Christopher Browne wrote:
>> That's the direction I'm thinking down...
>>
>> I just took a look at what Canada Computers has to offer (they usually
>> have a decent variety of choices, at not-out-there pricing); it looks
>> like it's impossible to pay more than $30 for a USB card reader, which
>> seems encouraging.  Numerous units are in the ~$20 range, which is
>> what I'll look at...
>
> Well so far I have used a silverstone internal reader (3.5" drive bay
> mount) and a mitsumi 3/5" floppy + reader in one, and both worked great.
>
> Sandisk readers in general while expensive seem to always work well.

I just did some testing with a Kingston reader that seems very
encouraging.  It's working flawlessly, thus far.

Historically, I have tended to prefer non-brand names, as they usually
had to be generic enough to be pretty Linux-compatible.  In contrast,
brand names often chose to go their own way, not necessarily in
directions implying high levels of compatibility.

Linux compatibility has become sufficiently essential that I suppose
that the past "wisdom" is no longer so.

Thus, replacing cruddy hardware with somewhat better hardware
evidently is a good way to go...  Thanks all for chiming in!
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