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    [–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    Pen drives are cheap as dirt nowadays, especially small ones that are like 16GB. I'd just buy a new one.

    [–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

    You're forgetting all the fun about taking this challenge as a personal offense and not doing anything else beyond solving it.

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

    I switched to using a NVMe SSD (M.2) in an USB enclosure. Bit larger than a stick but otherwise day and night. Make sure the enclosure chip is Realtek or Asmedia not JMicron.

    [–] [email protected] -3 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    Yes, they are cheap, but they wear out so fast that they aren't even worth that little money you put into them.

    [–] [email protected] 16 points 5 months ago (1 children)

    Yes, flash memory has limited writes, but what are you doing with your USB drives that they fail? I have at least one from 2005 that still works fine.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

    The only pendrive that lasted longer than 2 years for me is a 1gb lexar pendrive that is so old that I don't remember where it comes from, but from google I know that they were sold between 2006-12. I use them for installers, and sometimes to give legally obtained movies to my dad. I might be unlucky, but I had a pendrive that only lasted 2 writes.

    [–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago

    They wear out if you write data on them, reading doesnt matter. if you just need them for install, you just write once and you can install the same arch on millions of computers

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

    The key to make those cheap drives last a bit longer is by keeping as much free space as possible. For extra shitty drives, just leave half of its space alone (though they might die on their own no matter what you do).

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

    It's true that you're often playing the lottery with them, that's why I just buy a few at a time. Like right now in the US, you can buy 16GB USBs for $4. The last three I've bought have lasted over 5 years each, thankfully. But I've had ones that have been bad right out of the package. That's why I just buy from places that have at least 30-day return policies.