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Having a stick with exposed contacts and no USB shell (like the yubikey has) is not possible in USB3 format. It requires springs on the stick itself, no chance of the easy, pretty much unbreakable yubikey format. That only works for USB2. USB3-A (and -C) reversed the part that is springy, what was previously in the receptacle is now in the plug. Of course USB3-A is a mixed standard so the USB2 part is still as it was…
Are you thinking of the USB A yubikeys? The 5c that I linked has a shell around the connector. It seems no different to me than any usb type c or thunderbolt cables that I own.
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I am begining to dislike mint, that I incidentaly downoaded via mobile data onto an old hinky android phone, then put on a usb drive with a usb/c adapter, with "etchDroid", and booted an ancient desk top with. The phone I have now, has a sim tray with places for 2 SIM's and an SD card, so with one of these 1TB, USB-C drives and a 1 TB SD card, it should be possible to carry a local copy of OSM, and a copy of wikipedi…
Every Wikipedia article including pictures is ~111GB. Unless you want all of the edit history then maybe you are right. I have had Wikipedia on my phone for years, local search is fast enough. I also recommend Wiktionary, which has practically every word in every language and is less than 10GB. https://library.kiwix.org/#lang=eng
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Sandisk in general I’ve had good luck with - but there are a ton of fakes out there. That said, I see no way this drive could dissipate any useful amount of heat at all, so suspicious it would be a problem under sustained write loads. Especially since most use cases likely would never have sustained write loads.
The way to tell if it's genuine Sandisk is if you can't get the damn thing out of the package without cussing!
I've pretty much stopped using 'stick' type storage for anything >256MB, as regardless of brand and series, my experience is that these thingies overheat under anything but light write usage, and either slow to a crawl or drop off the USB bus entirely before my copy is finished. 'Credit card' sized SSDs are not that much more inconvenient to carry and store, and don't exhibit any of these issues for me. And the therm…
I've always wondered about why those little gadgets don't come with metal encasings bonded to the chip with a thermal pad, or putty out of the factory. Be it brushed aluminum, copper, or another alloy. Brushed, anodized, or with fins for 'heavy duty (outdoor/industrial?)' use(which you could clean with a brush, if need be). There should be a market/demand for that, when people are paying fantasy prices for gamified c…
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I've always wondered about why those little gadgets don't come with metal encasings bonded to the chip with a thermal pad, or putty out of the factory. Be it brushed aluminum, copper, or another alloy. Brushed, anodized, or with fins for 'heavy duty (outdoor/industrial?)' use(which you could clean with a brush, if need be). There should be a market/demand for that, when people are paying fantasy prices for gamified c…
They do? But that just means that my Transcend USB stick, made from aluminium, just heats up to 60C which makes it very hard to remove after writing without burning your fingers :(
The other one was just metallic painted plastic.
That was the era of 512MB to 4GB. Never bought again from them.
Also note, which I accidentally found when messing with filesystems Samsung created a filesystem called F2FS (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F2FS) which apparently has been supported in the Linux kernel and GRUB for ages (2012 and 2019 respectively) and seemingly works great with any kind of flash storage (but mostly external flash storage, because why run F2FS if you can run BTRFS on your NVMe SSD :) )
Going to experiment with it a bit soon, because this IMO is a much nice format than thumb drives which stick out... yes you guessed it.
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Kingston makes this product line for many years which meets the requirements I think https://www.kingston.com/en/usb-flash-drives/datatraveler-dt...
Kingston stopped making the one I really liked. A truly small microSD to USB adapter that could fit in a wallet. This was perfect for always having a USB drive around and not taking up space in your pocket. https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2F... https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/658398-REG/Kingston_F...
https://www.amazon.com/SanDisk-Ultra-128GB-Flash-Drive/dp/B0...
USB-C too, though they stick out much more because of the tinier connector: https://www.amazon.com/128GB-PNY-Elite-X-Type-C-Flash/dp/B0D...