Lmst

Gute #USB-Sticks für eine #LinuxInstallParty (und andere Zwecke): Ein Thema, das uns bei den @Datenpunks immer wieder Kopfschmerzen bereitet.
Aktuell suchen wir Sticks mit 64 GB und brauchbaren Schreibraten mit einem Stückpreis <5€.

Empfehlen kann ich aktuell #Kingston Kyson und #Adata UR340 (schreiben ISOs konstant mit 33 MB/s), die beide zuverlässig sind (leider passt es nur manchmal mit dem Preis -> Preisalarm setzen):
https://geizhals.de/kingston-kyson-64gb-dtkn-64gb-a2400313.html
https://geizhals.de/adata-ur340-64gb-aroy-ur340-64gbk-a2756222.html
Ebenso sind SanDisk Ultra gut:
https://geizhals.de/sandisk-ultra-64gb-schwarz-sdcz48-064g-u46-sdcz48-064g-a46-a990219.html
https://geizhals.de/sandisk-ultra-schwarz-64gb-sdcz48-064g-g462-a3150999.html

Nicht empfehlen kann ich #TeamGroup C145: Random Bit-Flips beim Beschreiben, einzelne Totalausfälle, lahmes Beschreiben.

Habt ihr noch Tipps, welche Sticks empfehlenswert sind? :thinking_rotate:

#Linux #FlashDrive #USBStick

Low cost & low quality USB stick destruction

https://makertube.net/w/uqJ2MVtsWVdmbaX9rgBTTV

Yesterday my old #flashdrive decided that enough is enough :(
I managed to restore but don't think will continue using it as it was 2nd time such thing happened.
First time it was over 10 years ago - I did restore and was using since then almost daily - keeping some most useful files, moving stuff between different computers, etc.
Now it's time to buy newer and bigger drive. As for this one perhaps will slap some Windows or Linux iso and keep it like that.

Enjoy your retirement mate! :)

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Flash drive or USB Thumb drive the PNY Pro Elite V3 1TB with 1000 MB/s read and 800 MB/s write. It's decent for this size.

How to fix USB Device Not Recognized on Windows 10/11

https://www.byteswifts.com/2025/03/how-to-fix-usb-device-not-recognized-windows-10-11.html

#USBError #Windows10 #Windows11 #TechSupport #USBNotRecognized #USBFix #WindowsHelp #PCTroubleshooting #ComputerHelp #USBConnection #WindowsIssues #DeviceManager #DriverUpdate #HardwareIssues #USBTroubleshooting #FixUSB #WindowsError #TechTips #ComputerTips #ITSupport #USBIssue #WindowsFix #ExternalDrive #FlashDrive #USBRepair #PCFix #TechGuide s #PCHelp #ErrorFix

How to fix USB Device Not Recognized on Windows 10/11

[FOR SALE] Empty USB flash drive! 1000TB 😇

#UniversalSerialBus #USB #FlashDrive #USB #FlashDrive #JOKE 😁

Air cooled my flash drive to get ultra fast performance out of it 🤣

#flashdrive
#aircooling
#heatsinks
#computing
#modding

@ginaintheburg Are you shure you don't conflate @torproject / #TorBrowser with @tails_live / @tails / #Tails, which is a #Linux #distro with #Tor & Tor #Browser setup and ready to use.

OFC there had been some "#PortableApps" / #portable #TorBrowser installations.that can be put.on a #flashdrive, but usually that's not how the stanalone Tor Browser is being used.

Confusingly Tails has been absorbed by the #TorProject but that's a different story...

That being said for the few #Websites that explicitly.choose to #BlockTor #Firefox is still the way to go.

As for #Accessibility, maybe the combination of a #HeadMountedDisplay & wireless Keyboard + Mouse combo offers you the desired flexibility...

Not to mention Tor Browser is available on #Android via @fdroidorg and #GooglePlay as well as directly from Tor Project as a Download...

Is it true that writing a bootable image to a flash drive is a "write once" operation and you can forget about reusing the drive for another bootable image?

#FlashDrive #fdisk #gparted

@nixCraft nearly all suitably encrypted. No FDE.

OpenZFS encryption for:

* the sensitive part of a mobile hard disk drive

* three low-spec USB memory sticks that add around 145 GiB persistent removable L2ARC to a circa 2014 HP ZBook with 32 G memory and a ~1 TB internal HDD.

GELI for 16 G swap.

GELI for 915 G /

tmpfs for /tmp/

<https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/issues/10256>

「… blocks in the L2ARC have the exact same on-disk representation as they do in the main pool. …」

geli(8) <https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=geli&sektion=8&manpath=freebsd-release> – automatically configured when FreeBSD was installed.

tmpfs(4) <https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=tmpfs&sektion=4&manpath=freebsd-current> (FreeBSD 15.0-CURRENT)

#FreeBSD #L2ARC #ZFS #OpenZFS #encryption #USB #memorystick #flash #flashdrive #mobile #GELI

How to permanently #deletefiles from a #USB #FlashDrive — complete guide

https://ambeteco.medium.com/how-to-permanently-delete-files-from-a-usb-flash-drive-complete-guide-8140e983010a

Google snags a Reddit monopoly! F3’s dodgy flash detection, Raspberry Pi 5’s dual 2.5Gb Ethernet, veggie-powered multistreaming, and a low-cost SBC that crushes the competition.

https://linuxgamecast.com/2024/07/dodgy-flash-detection/

@JessTheUnstill @hikhvar @wtremmel @benjojo agreed. Not to mention even if a stick is inna transparent casing like an "Intenso Rainbow Line" nothing prevebts one from just making a custom PCB with a ATmega based #BadUSB integrated onboard...

Personally I wished for something like a "#NeoFloppy" aka. standardized portable #SSD with #SATA connection that would provide the convenience of a #flashdrive with the safety of a "more secure interface" than #USB...

https://github.com/KBtechnologies/NeoFloppy

@SweetAIBelle Needless to say I'm convinced I can just boot @OS1337 from either a #USB-#Floppy(-#Emulator via USB Adaptor) or regular #flashdrive using #Ventoy, as #ISOLINUX distro...

I've been using that for a while to do #multiboot - #flashdrives to replace #YUMI and not rely on the expensive #IODD hard drive / SSD cases...

I'll test it out today...

Luckily I have some "bare metal" to test against:

Sony Vaio P11Z (Atom Z520 / i586 & sse3_atom)
hp t530 (AMD GX-212 / i686, amd64 & sse4.1 )
Zotac IONITX A-E (Atom 330 / i586, amd64 & sse3_atom)

Sadly I don't have much more "lower end" or "legacy" systems as a significant collection of mine got stolen from storage years ago and I don't have the money flying around to build @rasteri 's #Wee86 / #WeeCee... I was thinking about getting one of those Dell Wyse 3040 which AFAIK come with a #cursed #32bit #UEFI...

Sadly "Potato-level" #Netbooks running #VIA #C7 chips are nowadays rare and absurdly expensive and targeting those would be good as they already get too slow for mainstream 32bit distros like #BunsenLabsLinux so repurposing those as #OS1337 testing machines and target hardware may be a good option...
Tho just clocking down a #ThinClient with VIA Edenwould be sufficient to test out.

One of the machines that stolen from me was a Futro S300 with a #Transmeta CPU that I originally intended to use as #Windows95 box...

Like with #Android - #ROMs I've to likely do custom .config files to target such hardware and stay within the 1440kB size Limit for or the "CORE Edition"...

Movespeed USB flash drives are the real deal. I was testing out several distros on a new laptop a couple of weeks ago. Using a Microcenter "high speed" USB C drive. Slow as fuck. Looked around and saw a lot of posts about the Movespeed. Dual USB-A/USB-C was on sale so I bought one. Holy crap. Booted to the KDE Neon Live USB, which was very slow testing before, and it was almost instant. Very happy.

#usb #flashdrive #livecd

I'm not sure I need all of these boot USB sticks...
I probably should just make a #ventoy stick and use these for something else.

Berryboot is for the Raspberry PI, ChromeOS Flex is an old version, Windows 10 1909 fixed a boot issue I was having with a linux install (Weird huh? - Yeah I thought so too, Boot Repair didn't even fix it). There are 4 or 5 different Linux Mint installs dating back to 19.3, Clonezilla and finally a Video Game Console Retro Disk

#USBFlashDrive #FlashDrive #Linux