Flash drive with indicator light

I know Centon and Kingston flash drives have indicator lights that flash during writes/reads.

Anyone know of other brands that do also ?

Most stores keep them locked up, so you can't tell before buying one.

Thanks,
ANdy

On Thu, 7 Jan 2016 18:00:18 -0800 (PST), Andy wrote:
I know Centon and Kingston flash drives have indicator lights that flash
during writes/reads.

Anyone know of other brands that do also ?

Most stores keep them locked up, so you can't tell before buying one.

Just google below keywords including the quotes.

"USB" "flash" "drive" "specifications" "LED"

e.g. for Corsair drives:

"corsair" "USB" "flash" "drive" "specifications" "LED"

When you're interrested on a USB flash drive in one or more shops, take a
note of their brand and model then look for their speifications from the
internet.

Or just do it while shopping using your phone to google the drive specs.
e.g. if you're interested on a 64GB Corsair Flash Voyager google it like
this: (long text warning)

"corsair" "flash voyager" "64gb" "USB" "flash" "drive" "specifications"
"LED"

JJ,

Or just do it while shopping using your phone to google the drive
specs.
e.g. if you're interested on a 64GB Corsair Flash Voyager google
it like this: (long text warning)

"corsair" "flash voyager" "64gb" "USB" "flash" "drive"
"specifications" "LED"

Shucks, I was almost sure that the above would be regarded as an "or"
clause, causing google to return a *lot* of junk pages. Instead I got a
number of pages which included most, if not all of the above keyphrases ...

Is quoting everything googles new way (documented?) to create an "and"
search, or is this just luck ?

Regards,
Rudy Wieser


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JJ schreef in berichtnieuws
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On Thu, 7 Jan 2016 18:00:18 -0800 (PST), Andy wrote:
I know Centon and Kingston flash drives have indicator lights that flash
during writes/reads.

Anyone know of other brands that do also ?

Most stores keep them locked up, so you can't tell before buying one.

Just google below keywords including the quotes.

"USB" "flash" "drive" "specifications" "LED"

e.g. for Corsair drives:

"corsair" "USB" "flash" "drive" "specifications" "LED"

When you're interrested on a USB flash drive in one or more shops, take a
note of their brand and model then look for their speifications from the
internet.

Or just do it while shopping using your phone to google the drive specs.
e.g. if you're interested on a 64GB Corsair Flash Voyager google it like
this: (long text warning)

"corsair" "flash voyager" "64gb" "USB" "flash" "drive" "specifications"
"LED"

On Fri, 8 Jan 2016 11:14:42 +0100, "R.Wieser"
wrote:

JJ,

Or just do it while shopping using your phone to google the drive
specs.
e.g. if you're interested on a 64GB Corsair Flash Voyager google
it like this: (long text warning)

"corsair" "flash voyager" "64gb" "USB" "flash" "drive"
"specifications" "LED"

Shucks, I was almost sure that the above would be regarded as an "or"
clause, causing google to return a *lot* of junk pages. Instead I got a
number of pages which included most, if not all of the above keyphrases ...

Is quoting everything googles new way (documented?) to create an "and"
search, or is this just luck ?
I used search engines before most people ever knew they existed. The
old IBM "RETAIN" system (from the 1960s) also had a "not" tag so you
could eliminate things you did not want to see. I have never seen that
in a internet based search. Maybe I just don't know the trick.

On Fri, 08 Jan 2016 12:37:08 -0500, wrote:

On Fri, 8 Jan 2016 11:14:42 +0100, "R.Wieser"
wrote:

JJ,

Or just do it while shopping using your phone to google the drive
specs.
e.g. if you're interested on a 64GB Corsair Flash Voyager google
it like this: (long text warning)

"corsair" "flash voyager" "64gb" "USB" "flash" "drive"
"specifications" "LED"

Shucks, I was almost sure that the above would be regarded as an "or"
clause, causing google to return a *lot* of junk pages. Instead I got a
number of pages which included most, if not all of the above keyphrases ...

Is quoting everything googles new way (documented?) to create an "and"
search, or is this just luck ?
I used search engines before most people ever knew they existed. The
old IBM "RETAIN" system (from the 1960s) also had a "not" tag so you
could eliminate things you did not want to see. I have never seen that
in a internet based search. Maybe I just don't know the trick.

At the very least, you can eliminate sites with -site:youtube.com

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In message , R.Wieser
writes:
JJ,

Or just do it while shopping using your phone to google the drive
specs.
e.g. if you're interested on a 64GB Corsair Flash Voyager google
it like this: (long text warning)

"corsair" "flash voyager" "64gb" "USB" "flash" "drive"
"specifications" "LED"

Shucks, I was almost sure that the above would be regarded as an "or"
clause, causing google to return a *lot* of junk pages. Instead I got a
number of pages which included most, if not all of the above keyphrases ...

Is quoting everything googles new way (documented?) to create an "and"
search, or is this just luck ?
[]
Yes, I was wondering what the "" were for (except around "flash voyager"
where they enclose a phrase). But then I use the advanced search page
(https://www.google.co.uk/advanced_search?hl=en in my case), where the
first box is labelled "all these words:" anyway, so maybe the default on
the default page _is_ now OR (which I have as my third box, labelled
"any of these words:").

Certainly, I haven't seen a page describing the syntax for some time
(used to be +word meant it had to be there, -word meant it mustn't,
"xxxx yyyy" meant the specific phrase, and so on).
--
J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf

Quantum particles: the dreams that stuff is made of - David Moser

On Fri, 8 Jan 2016 11:14:42 +0100, R.Wieser wrote:
JJ,

Or just do it while shopping using your phone to google the drive
specs.
e.g. if you're interested on a 64GB Corsair Flash Voyager google
it like this: (long text warning)

"corsair" "flash voyager" "64gb" "USB" "flash" "drive"
"specifications" "LED"

Shucks, I was almost sure that the above would be regarded as an "or"
clause, causing google to return a *lot* of junk pages. Instead I got a
number of pages which included most, if not all of the above keyphrases ...

Is quoting everything googles new way (documented?) to create an "and"
search, or is this just luck ?

AFAIK, without any operator, Google searches using OR by default. That's
what I thought, at least. But according to Google's guide:

http://www.googleguide.com/interpreting_queries.html#AND

It says that the default operator is indeed an AND, an implicit AND that is
- which is described at section 12. It says:

"Implicit AND
Google returns pages that match all your search terms. Because you don't
need to include the logical operator AND between your terms, this notation
is called an implicit AND."

That's what Google said, but actual result says otherwise. I still consider
the default search is using the OR operator.

IMO, Google uses a fuzzy search that include similar words as matching
words. Google later added the Verbatim search to disable it but later on,
it's no longer work and the only way to disable it is to manually add
"nfpr=1" URL variable onto the Gogle search URL. e.g.

http://www.google.com/search?q=exact+search

Become:

http://www.google.com/search?q=exact+search&nfpr=1

Then later, that URL variable no longer work again; and now I'm out of idea
on how to turn off that fuzzy search.

I guessed that nfpr stands for "no fuzzy prediction search result" (I'm not
a native English speaker, BTW).

nfpr is just one of several undocumented Google search URL variables. Some
others that you may have already seen:
(these are part of my personal notes; some are documented by Google)

General:
gws_rd=Redirection.
cr=Redir,ncr=NoRedir,ssl=Secure
hl=Host Language (Google's UI).
ie=Input Encoding (character set)
oe=Output Encoding
newwindow=Open link in new window.
0=off, 1=on
num=Number of results per page
start=Starting result number (1-based)
nfpr=No Fuzzy Prediction search Results
safe=Safe search: images,active,off
lr=Language (web+video only).
"lang_" followed by language code
cr=Region (web+image only?).
"country" followed by 2char country code
q=Search query
oq=(Same as q?)
as_q=Required words
as_epq=Exact phrase
as_oq=Optional words
as_eq=Exclude words
as_nlo&as_nhi=Number range
as_qdr=Last updated
all=All,h=1hour,d=1day,w=1week,
m=1month,y=1year
as_sitesearch=Site or domain
as_filetype=File type (web+image only?).
e.g.: doc,jpg,avi
as_rights=Usage rights (web+image only?)
tbo=Show toolbar (sidebar). 1=show
tbm=Mode: isch=Image, vid=Video,
nws=News,bks=Book, blg=Blog,
pts=Patents,shop=Shopping,flm=Flight,
app=Apps
tbs=Selection Options
btnG=Do search (optional; default).
Value is optional and can be anything.
btnI=Do "I'm Lucky" (optional).
Value is optional and can be anything.

Web only:
as_nlo,as_nhi=Number range
as_occt=Content type: title,body,url,links

Image only:
imgz=Image size. l=large, m=medium, i=icon,
qsvga=400x300+, vga=640x480+,
svga=800x600+, xga=1024x768+,
2mp=2MP+, 4mp,6mp,8mp,10mp,12mp,
15mp,20mp,40mp,70mp
imgar=Aspect Ratio. t|xt=tall, s=square,
w=wide, xw=panoramic
imgc=Colors. color,gray,trans.
(other value means any color)
imgtype=Type.
face,photo,clipart,lineart,animated
as_st=??? eg: y (if advanced search)

Book only:
as_brr=Source. 0=any, 3=limited+full view,
1=full view only, 5=Google eBooks only
as_pt=Type.
ALLTYPES,BOOKS,MAGAZINES
as_vt=Title
as_auth=Author
as_pub=Publisher
as_sub=Subject
as_drrb_is=Publication date. q=anytime,
b=date range (use as_minXXX as_maxXXX)
as_minm_is=Pub date start month. 0-12
as_miny_is=Pub date start year
as_maxm_is=Pub date end month. 0-12
as_maxy_is=Pub date end year
as_isbn=ISBN
as_issn=ISSN

Elsewhe
ad=??? eg: w9 (on /custom only?)
cd=??? eg: 1 (on /url only?)
channel=??? eg: 3328277748
cof=??? eg: FORID:11%3BGL:1%3BLBGC:...
(on /custom only?)
complete=Autocomplete. 0=off,1=on.
(on /webhp only)
cx=??? eg: 010720650476917319035:grbf...
(on /cse only)
filter=??? eg: 0
pws=??? eg: 0
spell=??? eg: 1
url=Target URL. (on /url only)

Unknown:
aq=??? eg: f,t
aql=???
client=?appReferer? eg: ms-android...
ei=??? eg: tt_NU9PXCpWVuASL24LwAg
gfns=??? eg: 1
hs=??? eg: VeF,odb
meta=???
ndsp=?numResults? eg: 21
oi=??? eg: image_result_group
prmd=??? eg: ivns
revid=???
rls=?appInfo?
rlz=??? eg: 1G1GGLQ_ITIT331
sa=??? eg: F,i,N,t,X,{userId}
sei=???
source=?appReferer? eg: Int,og,lmns,web
sourceid=???
tab=?selected UI tab? ww=Web,wi=Image,
wl=Maps,w8=Play,w1=YouTube,wn=News,
wm=Gmail,wo=Drive,wc=Calendar,
wT=Translate,wD=Mobile,wp=Books,
wa=Wallet,wf=Shopping,wj=Blogger,
we=Finance,wq=Photos,wv=Videos
um=??? eg: 1
usg=??? eg: AFQjCNHCNDeO_zRAYM9F...
ved=??? eg: 0CBQQsAQ

On Fri, 08 Jan 2016 12:37:08 -0500, wrote:
I used search engines before most people ever knew they existed. The
old IBM "RETAIN" system (from the 1960s) also had a "not" tag so you
could eliminate things you did not want to see. I have never seen that
in a internet based search. Maybe I just don't know the trick.

Google, Bing, and Yahoo use "-" (dash) for the NOT operator. e.g.

usb drive -floppy -cdrom -dvdrom

Most web search engines provide help page(s) for their search operators.

[Default] On Fri, 08 Jan 2016 11:35:57 -0800, in
microsoft.public.windowsxp.general Barry Schwarz
wrote:

On Fri, 08 Jan 2016 12:37:08 -0500, wrote:

On Fri, 8 Jan 2016 11:14:42 +0100, "R.Wieser"
wrote:

JJ,

Or just do it while shopping using your phone to google the drive
specs.
e.g. if you're interested on a 64GB Corsair Flash Voyager google
it like this: (long text warning)

"corsair" "flash voyager" "64gb" "USB" "flash" "drive"
"specifications" "LED"

Shucks, I was almost sure that the above would be regarded as an "or"
clause, causing google to return a *lot* of junk pages. Instead I got a
number of pages which included most, if not all of the above keyphrases ...

Is quoting everything googles new way (documented?) to create an "and"
search, or is this just luck ?
I used search engines before most people ever knew they existed. The
old IBM "RETAIN" system (from the 1960s) also had a "not" tag so you
could eliminate things you did not want to see. I have never seen that
in a internet based search. Maybe I just don't know the trick.

At the very least, you can eliminate sites with -site:youtube.com

I hadnt' thought of excluding a site like this -- good to know -- but
otoh, in the case of youtube, I just say -youtube , and that works
too.

"Andy" wrote in message
...

I know Centon and Kingston flash drives have indicator lights that flash
during writes/reads.

Anyone know of other brands that do also ?

Staples (stationery store) house thumb drives.

--
Don Phillipson
Carlsbad Springs
(Ottawa, Canada)

JJ,

That's what Google said, but actual result says otherwise.
I still consider the default search is using the OR operator.

Thats why I was surprised when I saw the results. :-)

And thanks for the "added arguments" info. Although I did search for it a
few times, I never was able to find anything alike you have posted.

Regards,
Rudy Wieser


-- Origional message:
JJ schreef in berichtnieuws
...
On Fri, 8 Jan 2016 11:14:42 +0100, R.Wieser wrote:
JJ,

Or just do it while shopping using your phone to google the drive
specs.
e.g. if you're interested on a 64GB Corsair Flash Voyager google
it like this: (long text warning)

"corsair" "flash voyager" "64gb" "USB" "flash" "drive"
"specifications" "LED"

Shucks, I was almost sure that the above would be regarded as an "or"
clause, causing google to return a *lot* of junk pages. Instead I got
a
number of pages which included most, if not all of the above keyphrases
....

Is quoting everything googles new way (documented?) to create an "and"
search, or is this just luck ?

AFAIK, without any operator, Google searches using OR by default. That's
what I thought, at least. But according to Google's guide:

http://www.googleguide.com/interpreting_queries.html#AND

It says that the default operator is indeed an AND, an implicit AND that
is
- which is described at section 12. It says:

"Implicit AND
Google returns pages that match all your search terms. Because you don't
need to include the logical operator AND between your terms, this notation
is called an implicit AND."

That's what Google said, but actual result says otherwise. I still
consider
the default search is using the OR operator.

IMO, Google uses a fuzzy search that include similar words as matching
words. Google later added the Verbatim search to disable it but later on,
it's no longer work and the only way to disable it is to manually add
"nfpr=1" URL variable onto the Gogle search URL. e.g.

http://www.google.com/search?q=exact+search

Become:

http://www.google.com/search?q=exact+search&nfpr=1

Then later, that URL variable no longer work again; and now I'm out of
idea
on how to turn off that fuzzy search.

I guessed that nfpr stands for "no fuzzy prediction search result" (I'm
not
a native English speaker, BTW).

nfpr is just one of several undocumented Google search URL variables. Some
others that you may have already seen:
(these are part of my personal notes; some are documented by Google)

General:
gws_rd=Redirection.
cr=Redir,ncr=NoRedir,ssl=Secure
hl=Host Language (Google's UI).
ie=Input Encoding (character set)
oe=Output Encoding
newwindow=Open link in new window.
0=off, 1=on
num=Number of results per page
start=Starting result number (1-based)
nfpr=No Fuzzy Prediction search Results
safe=Safe search: images,active,off
lr=Language (web+video only).
"lang_" followed by language code
cr=Region (web+image only?).
"country" followed by 2char country code
q=Search query
oq=(Same as q?)
as_q=Required words
as_epq=Exact phrase
as_oq=Optional words
as_eq=Exclude words
as_nlo&as_nhi=Number range
as_qdr=Last updated
all=All,h=1hour,d=1day,w=1week,
m=1month,y=1year
as_sitesearch=Site or domain
as_filetype=File type (web+image only?).
e.g.: doc,jpg,avi
as_rights=Usage rights (web+image only?)
tbo=Show toolbar (sidebar). 1=show
tbm=Mode: isch=Image, vid=Video,
nws=News,bks=Book, blg=Blog,
pts=Patents,shop=Shopping,flm=Flight,
app=Apps
tbs=Selection Options
btnG=Do search (optional; default).
Value is optional and can be anything.
btnI=Do "I'm Lucky" (optional).
Value is optional and can be anything.

Web only:
as_nlo,as_nhi=Number range
as_occt=Content type: title,body,url,links

Image only:
imgz=Image size. l=large, m=medium, i=icon,
qsvga=400x300+, vga=640x480+,
svga=800x600+, xga=1024x768+,
2mp=2MP+, 4mp,6mp,8mp,10mp,12mp,
15mp,20mp,40mp,70mp
imgar=Aspect Ratio. t|xt=tall, s=square,
w=wide, xw=panoramic
imgc=Colors. color,gray,trans.
(other value means any color)
imgtype=Type.
face,photo,clipart,lineart,animated
as_st=??? eg: y (if advanced search)

Book only:
as_brr=Source. 0=any, 3=limited+full view,
1=full view only, 5=Google eBooks only
as_pt=Type.
ALLTYPES,BOOKS,MAGAZINES
as_vt=Title
as_auth=Author
as_pub=Publisher
as_sub=Subject
as_drrb_is=Publication date. q=anytime,
b=date range (use as_minXXX as_maxXXX)
as_minm_is=Pub date start month. 0-12
as_miny_is=Pub date start year
as_maxm_is=Pub date end month. 0-12
as_maxy_is=Pub date end year
as_isbn=ISBN
as_issn=ISSN

Elsewhe
ad=??? eg: w9 (on /custom only?)
cd=??? eg: 1 (on /url only?)
channel=??? eg: 3328277748
cof=??? eg: FORID:11%3BGL:1%3BLBGC:...
(on /custom only?)
complete=Autocomplete. 0=off,1=on.
(on /webhp only)
cx=??? eg: 010720650476917319035:grbf...
(on /cse only)
filter=??? eg: 0
pws=??? eg: 0
spell=??? eg: 1
url=Target URL. (on /url only)

Unknown:
aq=??? eg: f,t
aql=???
client=?appReferer? eg: ms-android...
ei=??? eg: tt_NU9PXCpWVuASL24LwAg
gfns=??? eg: 1
hs=??? eg: VeF,odb
meta=???
ndsp=?numResults? eg: 21
oi=??? eg: image_result_group
prmd=??? eg: ivns
revid=???
rls=?appInfo?
rlz=??? eg: 1G1GGLQ_ITIT331
sa=??? eg: F,i,N,t,X,{userId}
sei=???
source=?appReferer? eg: Int,og,lmns,web
sourceid=???
tab=?selected UI tab? ww=Web,wi=Image,
wl=Maps,w8=Play,w1=YouTube,wn=News,
wm=Gmail,wo=Drive,wc=Calendar,
wT=Translate,wD=Mobile,wp=Books,
wa=Wallet,wf=Shopping,wj=Blogger,
we=Finance,wq=Photos,wv=Videos
um=??? eg: 1
usg=??? eg: AFQjCNHCNDeO_zRAYM9F...
ved=??? eg: 0CBQQsAQ

On Sat, 9 Jan 2016 03:38:16 +0700, JJ wrote:

On Fri, 08 Jan 2016 12:37:08 -0500, wrote:
I used search engines before most people ever knew they existed. The
old IBM "RETAIN" system (from the 1960s) also had a "not" tag so you
could eliminate things you did not want to see. I have never seen that
in a internet based search. Maybe I just don't know the trick.

Google, Bing, and Yahoo use "-" (dash) for the NOT operator. e.g.

usb drive -floppy -cdrom -dvdrom

Most web search engines provide help page(s) for their search operators.

I guess it is just another RTFM thing. Thanks

"Don Phillipson" wrote:

"Andy" wrote in message
...

I know Centon and Kingston flash drives have indicator lights that flash
during writes/reads.

Anyone know of other brands that do also ?

Staples (stationery store) house thumb drives.

I've got a Maxell thumb drive that does that.

--
Tim Slattery
tim at risingdove dot com