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USB stick leaking
Mark Lloyd
Wed, 26 Apr 2017 00:44:34 GMT in alt.windows7.general, wrote: On 04/25/2017 02:23 PM, J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote: [snip] Common mistakes: "silicone chip" for semiconductors; silicon for breast implants (which would be very uncomfortable!). Yes. I've also heard "geranium diode". Wow. I haven't heard that in years. -- I would like to apologize for not having offended you yet. Please be patient. I will get to you shortly. |
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USB stick leaking
"Linea Recta"
news alt.windows7.general, wrote: Thanks for the info. Mine is quite old indeed, but as said: not intensively used. I have several other sticks of different make and indeed... with metal case. BTW I had no idea that a USB stick is regarded as "throwaway item". Oh, it gets better. They have a lifespan limit in the sense of max reads/writes they'll take, too. -- I would like to apologize for not having offended you yet. Please be patient. I will get to you shortly. |
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In message , Paul
writes: Mike Easter wrote: J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote: one of the yachts in [I think it was] the Americas Cup had a keel made of uranium, I think because it's very heavy [and probably not as soft as lead].) I don't know about America's Cup, but a Pen Duick racing yacht had a depleted uranium keel ballast because DU is almost twice the density of lead, so you get to have a lot more mass in a lot less 'bulk' down there. DU 19 gm/cm3 Pb 11.3 gm/cm3 Hg 13.5 gm/cm3 Au 19.3 gm/cm3 I was surprised by the results. I thought mercury was a shoe-in. For making keels, mercury has a certain disadvantage! [I've often wondered why an obvious choice is a "shoe-in".] Bill Gates would make his keel out of Gold. It's a bit soft. Wikipedia lists this one is the densest naturally occurring one. Osmium 22.59 g/cm3 (Is that more expensive than gold?) [] http://www.lenntech.com/periodic-cha...ts/density.htm Paul Hardness also required ... -- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf And Jonathan Harker would never have sent all those letters to his beloved Mina from Transylvania, he'd have texted her instead. "Stuck in weird castle w guy w big teeth. Missing u. xxxx (-:" - Alison Graham, RT 2015/11/7-13 |
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USB stick leaking
On 26.04.17 2:44, Mark Lloyd wrote:
On 04/25/2017 02:23 PM, J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote: [snip] Common mistakes: "silicone chip" for semiconductors; silicon for breast implants (which would be very uncomfortable!). Yes. I've also heard "geranium diode". What colour of flowers does it have? |
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Diesel wrote:
"Linea Recta" news alt.windows7.general, wrote: Thanks for the info. Mine is quite old indeed, but as said: not intensively used. I have several other sticks of different make and indeed... with metal case. BTW I had no idea that a USB stick is regarded as "throwaway item". Oh, it gets better. They have a lifespan limit in the sense of max reads/writes they'll take, too. Now, this is a USB stick. This is my go-to device for OS installs (write new images onto it, then boot from it). https://www.amazon.com/OCZ-Turbo-Cha...ceType=desktop Based on the long life it's had, it seems to be SLC. Someone in the reviews, comments to that effect. I cannot take it apart, without damaging it. I also have a couple sticks here, both Lexar branded, which use TLC flash, and these died after one year of usage. So a new 32GB stick at Walmart today for $10 to $20, expect it to last around a year. That to me is a throwaway item, not suited to archival storage. Whereas the Rally one I've got, seems to hold up a lot better. OCZ got out of the USB flash stick business, and OCZ also went out of business. Toshiba bought the brand, and it's still making SSD drives with Toshiba flash inside. There was a company, a couple years ago, who introduced a line of SLC sticks. But they've already crashed and burned, so the company has disappeared from the market. There weren't any reviews, and no actual verification it was SLC, and not some sort of pseudo-SLC solution. Some TLC flash chips, keep a small cache region with better characteristics, and that's done to give deceptive burst write speed (as otherwise, the TLC would seem slow). Paul |
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J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
Hardness also required ... https://marskeel.com/repair-modifica...eep-your-boat/ "According to Mars Metal, over 90 percent of their bulb installations are on boats with external lead keels, which are common on production boats. Check with your manufacturer if you’re unsure about your keel. If your boat has an iron keel you can install bulb halves, but cutting it will be more difficult. Encapsulated keels present several problems, not the least of which is finding out what kind of ballast is really inside the keel. You may find yourself cutting into lead shot, solid-lead blocks, iron blocks, or concrete. Contact the builder to learn what you’re facing. " I'd heard of lead shot being used in keels, but according to that article, there are at least two keel types. One being solid. The other being a "container" for the dense filler material. There are even boats made with concrete hulls. With enough buoyancy, they still float. I'm just a land lubber, so discussions about rafts and folks-holes and such, are foreign to me... A folks-hole is where you keep old people when they get too old. Paul |
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