[mdlug] USB Flash Drive Recommendations for Linux?

[Peter Bart]

On Tue, 2009-02-17 at 22:43 -0500, 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 
> 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.
> 

	I have no experience with this, but I happened to run across this the
other day. Maybe someone on the list has more information.
<http://www.kanguru.com/eflash.html>

Best Regards,
-- 
Peter Bart <peter at petertheplumber.net>
Peter The Plumber