[mdlug] USB Flash Drive Recommendations for Linux?

[Aaron Kulkis]

Drew wrote:
> At 11:08 PM 2/17/09, Aaron Kulkis wrote:
> 
>> 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.
> 
> 
> Why not a desktop drive?

1. Desktop drives don't fit in your pocket...even WITHOUT a carrier
2. Desktop drives require an external 12V power supply, which is
another bulky item, and it requires a free 120V AC plug, completely
killing the convenience aspect of a USB drive.

> They're even cheaper per megabyte, and I had  thought that the USB
> adaptor that someone had brought to a meeting had a desktop IDE connector.

They are of extremely limited functionality.

My original laptop setup before mobilizing for Iraq had an
external desktop drive.  That quickly proved to be unworkable --
so much so that I ended up buying a new laptop with dual hard drives.