<p>I have had excellent success with Sandisk, particularly their Cruzer Blade. I have a few 4gb variants that boot Ubuntu, Elive, DSL, and just about anything else I've thrown at it. They're also cheap and work well after being roughed around. I have literally stepped on one a few times and chucked it at a brick wall (it was a stress test, no one was really upset at the time.) and it worked just fine. Over a year later and they still haven't lost a bit.</p>
<p>-Scott Prader<br>
AmesLUG</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Jan 22, 2012 5:05 PM, "Matthew Nuzum" <<a href="mailto:newz@bearfruit.org">newz@bearfruit.org</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 4:28 PM, Nathan C. Smith <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nathan.smith@ipmvs.com" target="_blank">nathan.smith@ipmvs.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Don’t use a cheap no-name. Sandisk or Kingston. I have cheap no-names that don’t mount under Linux but look fine under Windows. Their characteristics seem to change each time they get plugged in.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">I’ve done what you want to do successfully with a Sandisk drive in the past.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> </span></p></div></div></blockquote></div><div><br></div><div>I disagree about recommending Sandisk. I have a kingston that is fine, I also have two generic ones that are fine. The Sandisk drives come with software flashed on them that causes them to have extra functionality. Even their website brags about this "feature." [1]</div>
<div><br></div><div>I mentioned this in my previous reply but couldn't remember the name, it's "U3" that I was thinking of. When I plug in my thumb drive it shows up as a USB drive and a CD Rom drive. In Windows it auto-runs something and installs software on the computer and in Mac OS and Linux you have to unmount two drives (the fake CD Rom and the usb drive) to eject it. I personally would avoid anything that says it comes with additional features besides just being a thumb drive.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Furthermore, the Sandisk drive is wider than most others causing it to partially block another port on my laptop.</div><div><br></div><div>[1] See the list of "features" at the bottom of this page: <a href="http://www.sandisk.com/products/usb-flash-drives/cruzer-usb-flash-drive" target="_blank">http://www.sandisk.com/products/usb-flash-drives/cruzer-usb-flash-drive</a> - includes "SecureAccess" software and a limited version of online backup software from YuuWaa. </div>
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