Re: Need recommendation for USB Thumb Drive

On Sun, 10 Jun 2007 16:22:46 -0700, ToddAndMargo wrote:

HI All,

Cent OS 5 (RHEL 5 Clone).

My imation swivel drive corrupts everytime I copy something
large to it with either "cp" or "rsync". I like the drive because it
has
a "write protect" switch. (It goes into a lot of infected Windows
machines and Windows' viruses now will jump to thumb drives.) But if it
doesn't work, it doesn't work. The partition table even gets corrupted.
My other non-switch thumb drive do not corrupt.

Can anyone recommend me a 4 GB USB thumb drive that:

1) won't corrupt with "cp" or "rsync", AND 2) has a write protect
switch?

I am using a 4 GB Kingston DataTraveler USB stick for backing up
essential stuff using rsync, and so far it is working like a champ. I
don't think it comes with a write protect switch though. On the plus
side, Linux is explicitly listed in its compatibility table.

A while ago I got a SanDisk Cruzer Mini for the same purpose. It
got foobarred after a single back up. I got in touch with the SanDisk
people and they said, sorry, Linux is not supported - which of course
means that SanDisk won't be getting my business any time soon.



.

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