• Anarchistcowboy@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    I see people say this a lot and I have no experience with this but I wonder why you wouldn’t use a USB nvme SSD enclosure it seems a lot easier and idk if running it over USB would limit the speed but it could preform better than a USB stick.

    • rotopenguin@infosec.pub
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      6 months ago

      A dumb little stick is fine for the occasional “fix something up” or “take a snapshot of a Windows drive because dd is objectively better than anything that Windows itself could do”. A live iso distro precludes me from adding a handful of other useful tools.

      • Hule@lemmy.world
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        6 months ago

        “persistent storage” is a thing.

        But USB drives can’t endure standard Linux for long. Too many logs and other files written all the time…