What would be the disadvantages of just installing your computer into a a thumb drive permanently instead of having to install it into the internal SSD?
The port has excellent speed times
You not bound to a single machine
Can mount it read only so no one can install malware
Your browser wont remember the last porn site you visited
sounds comfy but couldn't figure out a negative aspect
Do it
Primarily device drivers. Either each computer you use with it would have to be identical or you'd have to have it configured with an extremely wide range of drivers preinstalled.
There's multiple Linux distros designed to run on USB drives like Slax and Kali
>thumbdrive
you mean a jumpdrive
you mean a zipdrive
why not use one of those thumb computers instead? you just need a monitor
>jumpdrive
I believe the correct term is zip diskette
USB drives are slow. Just get an external hard drive. They're quite small and faster than a USB drive.
My external hard drive has Manjaro and Windows 10 dual boot. I use it on my AMD desktop and Intel laptop and computers at my Uni's library. No issues.
you mean a usb hard disk?
Why not just use an SD card instead?
universal serial bus compliant mass storage class mlc NAND flash drive
Why not use a PS/2 port instead?
Limited number of writes.
do you mean a hard diskette portable?
USBs can lie about if they've synced data to flash.
USB is notoriously unstable as a protocol and has less ECC than SATA
what you talkin about willace, ive mounted about thirteen or so distros, some of them a couple times over, in the last year to one drive and the drive is still pure as fuck. doesnt seem like a big issue to me
>The port has excellent speed times
the controller on the pcb however, does not
if it's not sequential, which with an operating system it will not be, you're gonna have a pretty bad time
do it, you will soon realize it’s stupid and slow
even if it’s only running a light desktop environment, like XFCE
>What would be the disadvantages of just installing your computer into a a thumb drive permanently instead of having to install it into the internal SSD?
There would be no TRIM command
>i bought a 50 dollar laptop and need to reinstall my os every day
lmao @ ur life my man
stuttering. if you have to use external, get a cheap ssd and usb/sata,adapter
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>Can mount it read only so no one can install malware
>Your browser wont remember the last porn site you visited
is pretty gud, have a comfy alpine usb with persistence. with a fine usb i don't think you have anything terrible to worry about although i don't use it as my daily driver
It'll be slow as hell unless you have an OS optimized for this. Read and write speed may be good but seek times will be abysmal.
I'm surprised no one has mentioned heat. A flash drive will get hot as fuck if you try to run an OS on it.
apparently using a usb2 plug avoids some heat
using a USB 2.0 plug will throttle your speeds to USB 2.0 speeds. Your OS will run like shit.
this is what I'm doing with a freenas setup for now, it hasn't seemed to be an issue and may squeeze out some more life from that cheap little stick
Most USB flash drives have poor random and 4k performance
Not worth it. Get a cheap SSD and USB3 enclosure with UASP support.
I believe that when you try to run an OS off of a USB its actually stored in the RAM
Very late reply but a lot of modern computers don't have SD card readers so you will be using a USB adapter most of the time and on top of that SD card storage is fickle as fuck
You mean USB Flash Drive.
This. Some USB3 flash drives absolutely fry while moving big files.
Checked. Windows PE does this, but full-fat Windows (i.e. Windows To Go) does not.
A good LiveUSB should have a boot flag to force the whole OS into RAM. So you get a slow startup but after that it will be fast as fuck. Not good if you are on an old heap with low RAM of course, but minimal distros should work.
You mean electronic portable universal serial bus compliant solid state mass multimedia storage device?
>The port has excellent speed times
Not true, and more importantly, your zip disquette is slower than that
I used the same drive for 30 separate OSes in 3 years and it ran out of writes
I did this for a while in various forms. First with Linux Live USBs using persistence, and then with Linux just installed straight on to them normally. I also tried SD cards for a while. What these two posters say is true:
It's slow as fuck, and you burn drives / cards out really quickly. The only way it works is if you just use a normal Linux Live USB setup like this:
But then you're back to everything resetting every time you turn the computer off (and Linux Live + Persistence just isn't as good as a proper installation). The last thing I tried was just installing it to a portable SSD, and that works, but only if you're not using a latptop / are okay with having shit dangling from your laptop. Internal is really the way to go, minus the whole thing where multiple OSes have to coexist on the same drive peacefully without Win 10 or OS X fucking your day up any time there's a major update.
Oh yeah, actually installing Linux to a flash drive and trying to run it on multiple machines can also be a headache, since it has to adapt to the unique hardware in each any time it's swapped. I had that working, but there was always an additional 90 second wait anytime I swapped laptops / desktops.
Random and Sequential speeds on a USB flash drive are horrible. I have done exactly what you're talking about. With Windows it sometimes hangs as it tries to load in the next action, for example when I click on the windows button, it can take two seconds for the start menu to pop up. I'd recommend installing it on an external SSD, like the Samsung T5, since that one runs perfectly fine for me.
Those are defunct. I doubt any manufacturers make zip drives.
Speed
>Your browser wont remember the last porn site you visited
Why won't it?
>The port has excellent speed times
The port, yes. But pretty much every flash drive doesn't come anywhere near the port speed, or will slow down massively after just a second of data transfer as the cache fills up.
i did this in 2009 and used it for a long time like this
recently i've got a more permanent location and dont need it anyway
It would be fine if you used something like a frugal Linux distro.
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Currently running my server from a USB drive.
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This works okay for home servers and such, but it'd be painful for desktop use.
>Your browser wont remember the last porn site you visited
Implying this is a good thing. I like to come back to my old faps.
Depend on the OS, and the machine you're running on it.
Care to share details?
I tried setting puppy linux and slax on the thumb drive, but found that simply having a RPi0W on my keychain is better solution.
>stupid and slow
Not if you use sfs and load the whole OS to RAM.
I suppose a USB 3.0 stick will run faster than SD cards?
Which one will burn out/die faster?
flashing the os from usb to ram, using f2fs partition for storage, and a dedicated grubstick... theres ways to minimize impact on usb degresation. if you want good lifespan get a good usb device. check stats online and buy the one with most lifespan AND speed (important as well)
I've tried sd cards too but they suck and linux drivers are fickle as someone said
Just use a raspberry pi
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>The port has excellent speed times
Still slower than an internal hard drive
>You not bound to a single machine
Correct.
>Can mount it read only so no one can install malware
If you do that, then installing new programs and updating your shit will be annoying
>Your browser wont remember the last porn site you visited
It's not that difficult to clear your history.
Slow as fuck, limited disk IO and limited writes.
Why not run Tails if you're that paranoid?
wrong, retard. It's called flash drive.
Zip diskette
Linux doesn't have this problem. All the drivers are included in the kernel
>The port has excellent speed times
...no it doesn't?
>You not bound to a single machine
Sure, but how many machines do you find yourself using right now anyway? I'm gonna take a guess and say one.
>Can mount it read only so no one can install malware
You can do this with anything.
>Your browser wont remember the last porn site you visited
Cookies are stored on diisk.
FreeNAS is designed to be run off a flashdrive. It basically just reads the OS into memory on boot and doesn't write anything to the USB unless you change a setting. Even then most of the info about your zfs pools and such are stored in the harddrives themselves.
You aren't going to run into any bottlenecks with FreeNAS because you aren't constantly reading & writing data to the flashdrive like you would with a regular operating system
this concept is useful, but useless in a network environment with an administrator who isn't a moron. you won't be able to boot from it.