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"up to 1 TB capacity... starting launch price is $15.99" I have adblock, how did this SanDisk commercial make it through?
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These days most of them seem to work just fine on Linux, Windows, and Mac. I use several brands across all 3 and never had an issue. I like the DOCKCASE Visual Smart ($40) or Explorer Edition ($50). They have large capacitors to provide 10 seconds of power loss protection, support 10Gbps USB speeds, and have a second USB port just for power which makes it compatible with SSD's that draw a lot of power. I like the inf…
Which filesystem do you use that handles large disks and can be mounted by Linux, Windows, and Mac?
That’s unfortunate, apparently the site requires some js, that is probably blocked by my firewall, to even load the page.
https://shop.sandisk.com/products/usb-flash-drives/sandisk-e...
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 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…
Even smaller and faster are nvme enclosures over thunderbolt. Easily can be boot drive.
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That's a more general problem with USB.
The problem I have with USB on windows is how windows insists on turning off/crashing drivers for anything attached to USB for long periods of time. It’s gotten to the point I just turn off my machine (instead of power saving) so that things actually work when I turn it on.
usb.autosuspend=-1 usbcore.autosuspend=-1
linux quiet=1 foo bar blah blah... line in your /etc/default/grub, /etc/lilo.conf or whatever bootloader you use. Then, run update-grub or similar.
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Any recommended enclosures that work reliably with Linux?
When you say Linux, reliability depends on distro. I had tried to install Mint on an external harddrive, and the stupid installer modified the boot loader to search for Grub on the removable disk. No removable disk, no grub, no booting of any OS. Idiotic. Lets not get started on the repair/recovery process since another mainstream OS recovery tools wont mount Fat32 EFI partition in R/W, needed to verify the uuid for…
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The most irritating thing about the credit-card sized ones, are how they aren’t attached if you move around. I like to be mobile, so I put some velcro ultra-mate on the back of my laptop, and also on my disk, then the disk can be attached and plugged in while I move around. I also got a 90-degree USB-C cable for a more direct cable route.
What do you do with all that storage? Here's the root partition (well, lvm) on a laptop I have been using for over three years now » df -hT ~ Filesystem Type Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/mapper/vgubuntu-root ext4 869G 298G 527G 37% / I do have an external drive for backups and another for drone footage but this is it. Everything else is either fast enough in the cloud or just here.
I want to see if I can move to prores in my import step, but I haven’t found a good workflow that allows for that.
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There are still for any macbook pro with sd card slot. BaseQi or similar Nothing beats cheap storage like that and completely flush with the case
But how reliable is it? I've heard stories about how unreliable it is, and it's got me concerned.