I’ve been using some cheap flash drives for things like installing OSs and the like, but now I’ve picked up a Dell Wyse 3040 system to play with which only has 8gb of storage. So I’m installing the OS onto a flash drive permanently (don’t worry, just for messing with, nothing of value will be lost if/when the drive craps out).

However, the performance of my cheap flash drive is terrible and installing packages & transferring files is so slow. My question is: Would getting a better drive make a meaningful difference here? If so, anyone have some recommendations of drives they like that are fast?

  • MonkderDritte@feddit.deEnglish
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    7 months ago

    There are some fancy ones with SSD-features like wear leveling, though i don’t know which.

    But why not a NVME USB enclosure?

    Thumbdrive as main disk does work, but once i trashed a SD-card-as-home with compiling something, i gave up on the idea.