[waldojim]

See, here we go again... making things up as we go...

[LiveBrianD]

No brainout - they sell them, but they don't make them.

[brainout]

LiveBrianD, on 25 November 2012 - 09:05 AM, said:

No brainout - they sell them, but they don't make them.

AmazonBasics is part of Amazon and makes them and sells them, I bought a 32GB, and it works as a boot drive in my Acer, if I want it to do so. Now, I'm away from the forum, my signature says that. I won't be posting here for awhile, got to get back to running the business. Arm is healed.

Enjoy! You've been a lot of help to me, and I appreciate it, Brian.

[LiveBrianD]

Oh, do you mean an SD card? (not the same thing as an SSD)

[rgreen4]

I am not aware of Amazon having any manufacturing faciltiy for any product. They do put their name on some products manufactured by others for them, however, I am unaware of any Amazon branded Solid State Drives (SSDs). Perhaps you could share with us what brand name is on the SSD you are referring to.

If it is an Secure DIgital (SD) memory card, they don't make them either. Yes, they have an Amazon Basics brand they put on a lot of products they have manufactured for them. There are actually very few manufacturers of flash memory, and most bulk sell their cards branded for a third party. It increases their volume and thus reduces their cost.

Neither Apple, Microsoft nor Amazon actually manufacture their products. They contract their production with producers in China who put the respective names on the products and ship them to the retailer. It is called private branding and has been a practice for many decades. I can remember seeing products in some department stores that were prices less than the name brand, but looked almost identical. Allied Department stores had the private brand of AMC long before American Motors was formed and also used the initials of AMC.

This post has been edited by rgreen4: 26 November 2012 - 04:14 PM

[brainout]

rgreen4, on 26 November 2012 - 04:06 PM, said:

I am not aware of Amazon having any manufacturing faciltiy for any product. They do put their name on some products manufactured by others for them, however, I am unaware of any Amazon branded Solid State Drives (SSDs). Perhaps you could share with us what brand name is on the SSD you are referring to.

If it is an Secure DIgital (SD) memory card, they don't make them either. Yes, they have an Amazon Basics brand they put on a lot of products they have manufactured for them. There are actually very few manufacturers of flash memory, and most bulk sell their cards branded for a third party. It increases their volume and thus reduces their cost.

Neither Apple, Microsoft nor Amazon actually manufacture their products. They contract their production with producers in China who put the respective names on the products and ship them to the retailer. It is called private branding and has been a practice for many decades. I can remember seeing products in some department stores that were prices less than the name brand, but looked almost identical. Allied Department stores had the private brand of AMC long before American Motors was formed and also used the initials of AMC.

They put their name on it, AmazonBasics brand, and back it as if the manufacturer, so that's all that matters. As for being able to do this, click here for a video showing the mechanics. So you do NOT have to have an internal SSD to boot your machine, which is quite useful for having an alternative to 'restore' or 'refresh. That video is five years old, so there's no excuse for not understanding what I posted, or at least doing a Google check, giving what I said the benefit of the doubt. I am HEARTILY tired of being attacked by people who don't do their homework, here. I never post a thing without backup.

I'm GONE now so won't reply anymore to this silly dispute. If you don't believe me despite the fact that you can GOOGLE or look at the links I put in my posts, that's your problem. Really, I don't post to show off, but to have a repository of answers I find ON the internet. I'm off working now so will not be viewing notifications anymore. I thought I turned off notifications YESTERDAY, but they keep on sending them to me. So from now on, I will be ignoring them. If someone really needs to talk back to me, I'm 'brainouty' in Youtube.

Bye.

[smax013]

brainout, on 24 November 2012 - 01:06 PM, said:

Yeah, that and Amazon SSDs are the ones I trust the most. Please let me know how it works for you, if you're in the mood? Thank you for your time!

(Been thinking about a hybrid laptop; ZaReason sells them, but so do many others.)

I quoted your original post above so that it is clear why people responded the way they did. You clearly claimed that Amazon "made" SSDs, not SDs. Now, I don't know if this was a mistake on your part or not, but it is clear.

Now, I cannot find ANY "AmazonBasics" SSDs, but I can find "AmazonBasics" SD cards. So, unless you can point me to them (i.e. "AmazonBasics SSDs"), your claim was completely false, although as noted you may have mistakenly said SSDs when you meant an SD card (if that is the case, I suggest you just be humble enough to admit that you made a mistake rather than get huffy and attack others for correctly reading EXACTLY what you typed/posted).

SSDs and SD cards are NOT the same thing. Yes, they both use "flash memory", but beyond that there are dramatically different...and they perform dramatically different.

brainout, on 28 November 2012 - 08:26 AM, said:

As for being able to do this, click here for a video showing the mechanics. So you do NOT have to have an internal SSD to boot your machine, which is quite useful for having an alternative to 'restore' or 'refresh. That video is five years old, so there's no excuse for not understanding what I posted, or at least doing a Google check, giving what I said the benefit of the doubt. I am HEARTILY tired of being attacked by people who don't do their homework, here. I never post a thing without backup.

I'm GONE now so won't reply anymore to this silly dispute. If you don't believe me despite the fact that you can GOOGLE or look at the links I put in my posts, that's your problem. Really, I don't post to show off, but to have a repository of answers I find ON the internet. I'm off working now so will not be viewing notifications anymore. I thought I turned off notifications YESTERDAY, but they keep on sending them to me. So from now on, I will be ignoring them. If someone really needs to talk back to me, I'm 'brainouty' in Youtube.

Bye.

As far as I can tell no one has disputed you being able to "do this" (i.e. boot from an SD card). It is very much possible to boot from an SD card. Personally, I would not recommend it except for "emergency" situations as it will typically take FOREVER to boot from an SD card (I have actually booted into the full Mac OS on one of my Macs from an SD card, so I know).

And that lead to the big difference between what EVERYONE ELSE was talking about (i.e. SSDs) and what you were talking about (i.e. SD cards). Booting from an SSD will be WAY, WAY quicker than booting from an SD card. In that video that you linked to, instead of taking minutes to boot with that SD card, it would have likely been seconds to boot with an SSD (and from the looks of that video, he is booting into some "reduced" OS environment, not full Windows).