Good morning everyone.
I have been working with SanDisk and Arrow Electronics to source the SD Cards you've spec'd for the Fedora on OLPC project.
If anyone would like to test on the OEM version[1] of the cards, I can mail them to you at cost. So $30US. I'll pay the postage.
~Karlie
[1] - Why is OEM important? When any sort of flash memory is produced there are minute differences with the internal structure. For this project we'll need to use an OEM part which ensures that we have the same card structure with every SD we send through the duplicator. Retail packaged cards do not have a consistent internal structure which can cause quality issues with a duplication run.
It's not that retail is inferior quality, but for day to day use (in a camera, phone or other application) write tolerances don't need to be as precise.
I'm submitting the first purchase order for test cards this morning though it's not too late to get testers. I can continue to order in batches right up until the production quantity arrives.
To make things easier, I've added the cards to our shopping cart [1], though feel free to email me directly as we can do orders manually too.
~Karlie http://on-disk.com/product_info.php/products_id/410
Karlie Robinson wrote:
Good morning everyone. I have been working with SanDisk and Arrow Electronics to source the SD Cards you've spec'd for the Fedora on OLPC project. If anyone would like to test on the OEM version[1] of the cards, I can mail them to you at cost. So $30US. I'll pay the postage. ~Karlie
[1] - Why is OEM important? When any sort of flash memory is produced there are minute differences with the internal structure. For this project we'll need to use an OEM part which ensures that we have the same card structure with every SD we send through the duplicator. Retail packaged cards do not have a consistent internal structure which can cause quality issues with a duplication run. It's not that retail is inferior quality, but for day to day use (in a camera, phone or other application) write tolerances don't need to be as precise.
Fedora-olpc-list mailing list Fedora-olpc-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-olpc-list
The first batch of test cards are in and will be mailed today.
Karlie Robinson wrote:
Good morning everyone. I have been working with SanDisk and Arrow Electronics to source the SD Cards you've spec'd for the Fedora on OLPC project. If anyone would like to test on the OEM version[1] of the cards, I can mail them to you at cost. So $30US. I'll pay the postage. ~Karlie
[1] - Why is OEM important? When any sort of flash memory is produced there are minute differences with the internal structure. For this project we'll need to use an OEM part which ensures that we have the same card structure with every SD we send through the duplicator. Retail packaged cards do not have a consistent internal structure which can cause quality issues with a duplication run. It's not that retail is inferior quality, but for day to day use (in a camera, phone or other application) write tolerances don't need to be as precise.
Fedora-olpc-list mailing list Fedora-olpc-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-olpc-list
On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 10:43 AM, Karlie Robinson karlie_robinson@webpath.net wrote:
The first batch of test cards are in and will be mailed today.
Did you order some extras? I just got my XO, and am having weird issues with the Extreme III cards that I have for it that I want to verify will not be a problem on a production run (http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2008-November/msg00445.html). Clicking the link to the store led to nothing.
No I didn't. I only ordered what was requested. However, I will be getting the first batch of cards for the production Run on the 19th though it will probably be too late to try it then.
~Karlie
Jon Stanley wrote:
On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 10:43 AM, Karlie Robinson karlie_robinson@webpath.net wrote:
The first batch of test cards are in and will be mailed today.
Did you order some extras? I just got my XO, and am having weird issues with the Extreme III cards that I have for it that I want to verify will not be a problem on a production run (http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2008-November/msg00445.html). Clicking the link to the store led to nothing.
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