You made a good choice. As you can see on the label, the cards are "Industrial Grade." This means, at least, they have SLC (Single Level Cell) flash in them. SLC is more data reliable and longer lived than MLC (Multi-Level Cell) flash. SLC = store only one bit per flash cell. MLC = store two (or more) bits per flash cell. MLC is higher density for about the same manufacturing cost so sellers like it. It's fine for cameras, etc. but not for computer operation uses, in my opinion. By the label design they are probably from 2002-2003, which is fine unless they've had very heavy use. It would be nice to know their history but, at least they started life as some of the best you could get. Alan On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 11:43 AM, Mike Bushroe wrote: > From the photo on ebay, they look to be Sandisk. > > http://tinyurl.com/d9up8f > > They have not arrived yet, but the machine I will be testing them on I > just added an Ubuntu partition to, so I do not have to do any testing > in Windoze. > > Mike --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss