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More and more USB sticks and microSD cards are being made with dubious components — data recovery firm uncovers no-name, low-quality NAND inside many devices (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] FelipeFelop@discuss.online 26 points 2 years ago (2 children)

An interesting point not touched upon is that the types of people using USB sticks has changed. Because the use of technology filters down from tech savvy, to general population, to people late to the scene or can’t change.

We are in that last stage now. They are buying by price and so easier to take advantage of.

[–] lemmyingly@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

There are machines that still use floppy disks as their only method to transfer on/off the machine. By machines I mean expensive hundreds of thousands of dollars research or production machines.

[–] aniki@lemm.ee -2 points 2 years ago (5 children)

I haven't even found the need for a thumbdrive outside of flashing firmware and storage devices. All my documents are on google drive.

[–] tiramichu@lemm.ee 37 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I use them for:

  • Music in my car
  • Moving files to my locked-down work PC
  • The (read only) OS drives for my Unraid NAS servers
  • Media for my parents to watch when they are away on vacation and can plug it into a hotel TV
  • General sneakernetting of large files

They definitely don't get as much use as before, but I'm still using them.

Edit: please don't downvote the person above me, they are only saying what is true for them :)

[–] randombullet@programming.dev 8 points 2 years ago

Yeah I agree. I have a drive running Ventoy and that's about it.

Also if I'm moving a lot of data. I'll use a NVMe enclosure to speed up the transfer instead of network.

[–] Rhaedas@kbin.social 6 points 2 years ago

Be sure to have backups and not that sole location. Same is true of any physical drive, but at least a drive failure might be recoverable. A cloud storage can just be gone one day.

[–] vanontom@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I think of "thumb drives" as portable SSD with USB. "Portable backup drives" have taken its place for me. Incredibly fast (NVMe SSD + USB-C), quite small (M2 card size + case), durable (same as thumb drives), growing sizes (1-2 TB affordable).

I keep my old flash drives for smaller things like bootable apps, fresh OS installs, firmware updates. I definitely have no need for mystery off-brand storage though.