[mdlug] USB Flash Drive Recommendations for Linux?

[Aaron Kulkis]

Stan Green wrote:
> I am currently using USB flash drives that I am not happy with. They are VERY 
> slow, they are at their worse during writes. It is taking about 30 minutes to 
> copy 5GB. I lost track of how long my last 20GB copy took. They might be USB 

This is why I buy laptop drives, and put them in a $25 USB carrier.
The $/GB is a better buy, and for large file transfers, they
work faster -- at least for decent file systems like ext3 or xfs.

> 1.1 but I'm not sure.  I need to move large amounts of data and I cannot have 
> them be this slow. OK, I do format them as NTFS as I frequently plug them 
> into Windows boxes that do not have the EXT2 drivers. I do like the small 
> size and portability of the flash drive. Does anyone have a brand/model that 
> is fast, has large capacity, 32GB +,  and works well with Linux? I have heard 
> of some drives that are fast on Windows but slow on Linux. This does not 
> sound right but I don't want to spend the money just to try diprove it.

As I said... laptop drive + USB carrier.
And the nice thing is...since they're large enough to be noticeable
(unlike USB keys), they're large enough for you to notice that it's
NOT in your pocket when you leave (rather than suddenly trying to
remember every place you could have left it over the previous week).