Comments on: Amazon deal: 32 GB for 40 bucks.

By: RobVG

RobVG — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 22:15:31 +0000

Now there’s an example of a properly developed sense of humor. n/t

By: bowser

bowser — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 21:31:12 +0000

Speaking of “slots”. Did you hear about the mechanical prostitute under development by Bowser International Industries, Inc. (with all the rights of a person) LLC. Don’t call us, we’ll call you.

It’s a slut machine.

By: TB

TB — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 20:22:33 +0000

I’ve got a slot on my floppy drive where I can plug a memory card directly.

I have no idea what the speed rating is.

USB3 is supposed to be like 5 GB/s. Don’t know what slowed you down.

I do know that a lot of hubs and things will run everything at whatever the slowest USB is that’s plugged in.

By: Robert

Robert — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 20:12:52 +0000

Caveat: What kind of USB is the adapter?

The low price may be due to its using an older and slower USB standard. I searched their literature in vain to find out if it’s USB 2 or USB 3, but some throughput numbers suggested the slower standard.

The bigger the memory capacity, the more you care about the throughput. The other day my office server crashed, and I had to backup and then restore 1.5 terabytes to an external drive connected via USB 3, and it took 18 hours each way. Speed matters.