Cheap USB 3.0 for Linux boot?

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I want to make a Linux flash drive boot stick, but I want an upgrade from my crappy random brand 12 gb usb 2.0 one.

I found the following:

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?reviews=all&Item=N82E16820147698&cm_re=usb_3.0_flash_drive-_-20-147-698-_-Product

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?item=N82E16820173133

These seem very appealing for their size, price (I am really budgeted), and their speed.

However, nearly every review states that both get extremely hot, and more importantly- the speed is only for the cache (Which is under a gig), and the main memory is pitifully slow.

I shouldn't be doing large file transfers on this, as it will just be a light linux boot, my libraries will be elsewhere.

 

My question is, how well do you expect to this to run a full linux install?

Which should I choose of the two, or do you recommend anything else?

Thanks.

[manikyath]

to be blatantly honest, if you're wanting to get more than "average usb stick" speeds, look into usb SSDs instead.

 

but on the topic of booting linux off of it.. i've had linux boot off of an SD card on a laptop that also ran windows off a bog standard hard drive.. linux ran notably more snappy off the (pretty mainstream) SD card than windwows did off the hard drive. as long as its not a complete potato, linux'll run "good enough".

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26 minutes ago, manikyath said:

to be blatantly honest, if you're wanting to get more than "average usb stick" speeds, look into usb SSDs instead.

 

but on the topic of booting linux off of it.. i've had linux boot off of an SD card on a laptop that also ran windows off a bog standard hard drive.. linux ran notably more snappy off the (pretty mainstream) SD card than windwows did off the hard drive. as long as its not a complete potato, linux'll run "good enough".

How I'd love to get one of the basically-an-ssd-with-a-usb-port...

But I need one on my main rig first, saving up for that.

 

I just wanted to know if it will be significantly better than my current situation.

Thanks for the info.