It feels so wrong to have a boot device with that much space when the OS you're putting on it is less than 4 GB
Put Ventoy on there and you can boot multiple ISOs off the same drive
I still use DVD-R for my live systems. Somewhat for nostalgia, somewhat because "why waste a 16gb flash drive for something that barely takes 2gb?"
If you put puppy Linux on it you can save your data back to the drive even though it's technically a live system.
I remember the first time I saw an USB stick when a teacher in school had his lesson materials on a usb stick on a lanyard around his neck
WTF, WEARABLE DATA STORAGE, THIS IS SOME FUCKING CYBERPUNK SHITMe in 2005 running around being the coolest nerd in school with my Sandisk Cruzer on a lanyard. "It's made of metal!"
I remember like 8 years ago a friend of mine excitedly bought some outlandishly large for the time 256GB USB 2.0 drives on some sketchy site. or maybe just ebay tbh. They arrived, reported 256G in windows, but failed when you filled them more than a few gigs iirc. It was literally too good to be true, and that wasn't even that long ago. Now that much storage fits on a micro SD and its not even unusual.
My first laptop had 11 GB of hard drive space, and it was upgraded I think
We're in the part of the timeline where a 32 gb microSD card is becoming a suspiciously small amount of storage. "Yeah, I don't think Sandisk even makes those anymore... Hmmm... I'll just go with the free 64 gig one that microcenter is giving away. That's more trustworthy."
I have a 2gb that's a little rubber
It's been through the washer like 20 times and it still works. I must have had it for ten years.Almost impossible to find distros that actually fit on it but a few have net installers.
At this point the read speed is more important than the maximum capacity
I've stopped getting usb drives and sd cards because the quality/speed of the nand flash is terrible. I just have a quick swap m.2 enclosure and some cheap m.2 drives.
It's like a stick of gum with flash chips on it, works well in one of these
"I need the biggest USB stick you have. No, that's too big."
