Re:Rufus: Reliable USB Formatting Utility
by dspillett on Friday May 07, 2021 @05:25AM
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Another vote for ventoy. Means I can use my large fast USB drive (actually an mSATA SSD pulled from a broken laptop, in an adapter) as a collection of boot media while keeping the rest of the space for other use. I don't need to boot from a distro CD often these day, but when I do it is nice that it is much faster than my other USB sticks, more convenient than carrying a few (Debian, Ubuntu, psSense, Kali, ...) around, and more convenient to update when I need something new or otherwise specific for the situation.
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I use a 128GB m.2 SSD in a stick enclosure with USB A on one end and USB C on the other. Whole package was $30 from Amazon.
Yeah, the adapter was cheap. I already had a working drive to go into it.