True. To be fair though, haven't ever seen a warranty of a USB flash disk being suitable as an OS boot drive.Many things related to computer technology have a warranty that is similar to whenin Zork the Great Underground Empire.This boat is guaranteed against all defects in parts and workmanship for a period of 76 milliseconds from date of purchase or until first used, whichever comes first.
https://www.thezorklibrary.com/history/ ... _boat.html
USB flash performance as boot drive is very hit-and-miss. There are no guaranties.
In the setup I'm using, all that's certain is that so far it works and it has not failed, yet.
Yes. Kingston did ask for detailed photos of the device and device markings to make sure it's genuine and not some cheap knock-off.sudo smartctl -i /dev/sda2
showed brand and model info ok. It says SMART information (temperature and others) not supported. Liikely not fake. It was from a shop that has been in business for long time.
In my case smartctl indicates
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SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.SMART support is: DisabledTemperature Warning: Disabled or Not SupportedAlso, from dmesg I see that write caching is disabled:
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[ 2.516786] usb 2-1: New USB device found, idVendor=0951, idProduct=177f, bcdDevice= 1.00[ 2.516804] usb 2-1: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3[ 2.516816] usb 2-1: Product: DataTraveler Max[ 2.516826] usb 2-1: Manufacturer: Kingston[ 2.516834] usb 2-1: SerialNumber: 2044XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX[ 2.540106] scsi host0: uas[ 2.541677] scsi 0:0:0:0: Direct-Access Kingston DataTraveler Max 1000 PQ: 0 ANSI: 6...[ 2.593837] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 500118192 512-byte logical blocks: (256 GB/238 GiB)[ 2.593986] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off[ 2.593995] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 43 00 00 00[ 2.595181] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: disabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUAStatistics: Posted by koge — Sat Dec 07, 2024 4:10 pm