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* Claim: Cheap USB Sticks have fast memory only at beginning, rest is slooow!Ken Blake
`- Claim: Cheap USB Sticks have fast memory only at beginning, restCarlos E.R.

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Re: Claim: Cheap USB Sticks have fast memory only at beginning, rest is slooow!

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From: Ken@invalid.news.com (Ken Blake)
Newsgroups: alt.windows7.general,alt.os.linux,uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Claim: Cheap USB Sticks have fast memory only at beginning, rest is slooow!
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 by: Ken Blake - Wed, 1 Feb 2023 15:28 UTC

On Tue, 31 Jan 2023 21:44:02 +0100, "Carlos E.R."
<robin_listas@es.invalid> wrote:

>On 2023-01-31 19:21, Ken Blake wrote:
>> On Tue, 31 Jan 2023 16:54:57 +0100, "Carlos E. R."
>> <robin_listas@es.invalid> wrote:
>>
>>> On 2023-01-31 16:32, Ken Blake wrote:
>>>> On Tue, 31 Jan 2023 10:58:15 +0000, Pancho <Pancho.Jones@proton.me>
>>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> My point, once again, is that when drive manufacturers use the
>>>> established standard for disk drives when almost the rest of the
>>>> computer world does it differently, it confuses people and is a bad
>>>> thing to do. In my view, this is a case where consistency is more
>>>> important than standards.
>>>
>>> Mine is that those computer people are doing it wrong, and the rest of
>>> the world is right.
>>
>> Going by the standards, you are of course correct.
>>
>> But it doesn't matter. What matters is what considered correct by most
>> people.
>>
>>> Computer people have to adapt and say 1 GiB instead og 1 GB.
>>
>> "Have to"? Not a chance. It will never happen. There's only one way to
>> get consistency and that's for the drive manufacturers to use the
>> common understanding of KB, MB, GB etc. that the rest of the computer
>> world uses.
>
>Not going to happen :-)

We agree on that.

>> You will have course say that the drive manufacturers shouldn't change
>> and the rest of the computer world should. That might be a good choice
>> if it were possible, but it's not. There are only a handful of drive
>> manufacturers, but *millions* of computer users. You're not going to
>> change those millions.
>
>Give it time, and teach units in schools.

Not going to happen :-)

>>> Hard disk
>>> people are doing it right since decades.
>>
>>
>> Technically, yes. Practically, no.
>>>
>>> Microsoft, typically, hates standards and goes against.
>>
>> We agree on that. Is Microsoft responsible for the common meanings of
>> MB, GB, TB, etc. being different from the standards and being used the
>> way they are? Probably.
>>
>> But it doesn't matter who is responsible. Whether you or I like it or
>> not (I also don't like it, but I have no real choice other than to
>> accept it), that's the way it is, and we are not going to change it.

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From: robin_listas@es.invalid (Carlos E.R.)
Newsgroups: alt.windows7.general,alt.os.linux,uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Claim: Cheap USB Sticks have fast memory only at beginning, rest
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 by: Carlos E.R. - Wed, 1 Feb 2023 21:36 UTC

On 2023-02-01 16:28, Ken Blake wrote:
> On Tue, 31 Jan 2023 21:44:02 +0100, "Carlos E.R."
> <robin_listas@es.invalid> wrote:
>
>> On 2023-01-31 19:21, Ken Blake wrote:
>>> On Tue, 31 Jan 2023 16:54:57 +0100, "Carlos E. R."
>>> <robin_listas@es.invalid> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 2023-01-31 16:32, Ken Blake wrote:
>>>>> On Tue, 31 Jan 2023 10:58:15 +0000, Pancho <Pancho.Jones@proton.me>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> My point, once again, is that when drive manufacturers use the
>>>>> established standard for disk drives when almost the rest of the
>>>>> computer world does it differently, it confuses people and is a bad
>>>>> thing to do. In my view, this is a case where consistency is more
>>>>> important than standards.
>>>>
>>>> Mine is that those computer people are doing it wrong, and the rest of
>>>> the world is right.
>>>
>>> Going by the standards, you are of course correct.
>>>
>>> But it doesn't matter. What matters is what considered correct by most
>>> people.
>>>
>>>> Computer people have to adapt and say 1 GiB instead og 1 GB.
>>>
>>> "Have to"? Not a chance. It will never happen. There's only one way to
>>> get consistency and that's for the drive manufacturers to use the
>>> common understanding of KB, MB, GB etc. that the rest of the computer
>>> world uses.
>>
>> Not going to happen :-)
>
> We agree on that.
>
>
>>> You will have course say that the drive manufacturers shouldn't change
>>> and the rest of the computer world should. That might be a good choice
>>> if it were possible, but it's not. There are only a handful of drive
>>> manufacturers, but *millions* of computer users. You're not going to
>>> change those millions.
>>
>> Give it time, and teach units in schools.
>
> Not going to happen :-)

:-)

--
Cheers, Carlos.

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