[sf-lug] USB 3.0 Flash Drives - Penguin shaped and others

[Bobbie Sellers]

On 4/30/19 10:53 AM, Rick Moen wrote:
> Quoting Bobbie Sellers (bliss-sf4ever at dslextreme.com):
>
> [shopping for USB flash drives]
>
>> This is preliminary to the meeting notice for May 5th which will be
>> out next week and may make some folks interested in getting a Flash
>> Drive to run Nomad BSD or Knoppix from.
> Ja, but...
>
> USB flash drives are _painfully slow as main storage_, compared to an
> internal hard drives or SSDs.  Although running a live distro from one
> is very useful for utility purposes, to test-boot a distro, or to
> evaluate Linux driver support for hardware, it's very suboptimal for
> ongoing computer use, because of the mass-storage performance
> bottleneck.

     But much faster than CDs or DVDs.
>
> At a certain point, Bobbie, it's wise to, y'know, install an operating
> system, and stop incessantly kicking tires and avoiding committing.
>
> But if you want a minimum-commitment OS installation, I can recommend
> installing into VMs (e.g., with VirtualBox).  For one thing, then you
> can actually live with the installed OS, maintain it, make changes,
> etc. -- but without dedicating the entire machine to that, and with the
> ability to use the host and guest OSes simultaneously.
>
         Yes I agree with your idea about trying things out but right 
now I am a bit cramped for space on my
test machine that I bring to meetings,  I have download an image or two 
for Virtual Box but will have to
remove an image or two on that machine to make room for more interesting 
images1s.
   Or add a larger drive to the test machine.

         Bobbie Sellers


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