[mdlug] USB Flash Drive Recommendations for Linux?

[Jesse J. Salens]

For usb flash drives, I like the Adata brand sticks. In my experience they
have performed well, though my experience is mainly under linux and using
ext2. AData was nice enough to repair my drive at no cost after it was run
over by a truck, so that was a bonus.

Another option would be the laptop drive. I have a Western Digital 400GB
portable which works well. Got in at BestBuy for $89 on sale around the
holidays.

On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 11:08 PM, Aaron Kulkis <akulkis00 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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).
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