I’ve had DataTraveller sticks since the late 90s/early 00s. Never given me a problem.
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Rentlar@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
That Kingston DataTraveller I have as well and it’s my ol’ reliable from at least 9 years ago. For some reason PCs put up a fuss with recognizing other people’s USBs at boot, I’ve never once had an issue with the Kingston.
It is true that it is slower but for a live distro, install and troubleshoot disk it does the job perfectly fine.
TexasDrunk@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Armand1@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
For me I found that the lack of responsiveness when in the booted environment was problematic. I use stuff like GParted on Linux bootable USBs to manage partitions too.
Writing a new image to the stick was also really slow.
New sticks are £10 for 64GB, so I recommend giving one of the above a try and see if you get a better experience!