Flash Drive questions

[Donut417]

So was looking for a drive to image an ISO to for Ubuntu. While I found one, I came to the conclusion that all my flash drives are super old, like maybe from the early 2010's, maybe older. Do brands matter at all? Or are they all the same? Im talking name brands, not cheap Chinese brands. Considering buying maybe a couple of newer ones just to replace my old aging ones. 

[Needfuldoer]

By all means get at least one good flash drive to use regularly. For older ones though, as long as they have enough capacity and they're USB 3.0, run them until the wheels fall off.

 

In my experience, even "brand name" flash drives are cheap and disposable and should never be trusted with the only copy of anything important. They will fail, and Murphy says it will happen at the worst possible time.

 

Same deal with MicroSD cards. Both prioritize price to capacity over longevity.

[y0ur5h4d0w]

buy a Kingston DataTraveler Exodia it's one of the good brand and good product combo, might cost a tiny bit more then others but it's a reliable one, i use one with ventoy since a couple years and never failed me once

 

this is mine from amazon.it, for sure you will find it everywhere
https://www.amazon.it/dp/B0BW9R7P3J

[podkall]

28 minutes ago, Needfuldoer said:

In my experience, even "brand name" flash drives are cheap and disposable and should never be trusted with the only copy of anything important. They will fail, and Murphy says it will happen at the worst possible time.

Chineese decent cheap parts + case with big brand logo = the big brand USB that costs bit more than the other one

[Donut417]

2 hours ago, y0ur5h4d0w said:

buy a Kingston DataTraveler Exodia it's one of the good brand and good product combo,

From Kingston they are ike $7.99 for 64Gigs. They start at 64 gigs, so thats a lot more than I need. So Id likely go that route. 

 

2 hours ago, Needfuldoer said:

as long as they have enough capacity and they're USB 3.0, run them until the wheels fall off.

 

Thats the issue, Ive had them so long Im not sure if they are USB 3.0 drives, they could be 2.0. I dont use Flash Drives often. I have a NAS, so sometimes when I transfer files I just throw them up on the NAS. BUT on rare occasions like installing OS's I use a flash drive. The drives that @y0ur5h4d0w suggested are really affordable. Even if it doesnt last a really long time, but that being said, with how rarely I use a drive, I likely wont kill it by writing tons of data to it. 

 

2 hours ago, Needfuldoer said:

ame deal with MicroSD cards. Both prioritize price to capacity over longevity.

Yeah I knew SD cards were a mess. I have a spare 1 TB SATA SSD that I considered putting in a enclosure, its big and bulky but the SSD was only used maybe for a year or two, so still gots a bit of life left in it.