My SSD broke, now I must endure the pain of running my OS on a USB stick till it arives.
My SSD broke, now I must endure the pain of running my OS on a USB stick till it arives.
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is it slow
EDIT: nvm I just saw your flair lol
I used to run my first freenas server off a USB
*laughs at your USB stick while looking at my micro sd card*
That’s probably bearly usable on windows. Linux it would work.
i read super and immediately thought i was on r/helldivers
Been running unraid for 10 years off a usb stick now, no problems yet…
I run my OS on a USB stick as well. It’s also Kali Linux, which I can plug into anywhere and get access to 😀
We used to run OS on a floppy drive
*the Compact flash disk in my MDD Mac running Leopard*
IM GIVIN ER ALL SHES GOT CAPTIN
I had an Acer Aspire One once which somehow I borked the built-in NVME drive and made the first sector unreadable. Rest of the drive was fine, but guess what’s super important to boot?
Ended up booting Linux off a USB stick for the remainder of its life. Slow AF, but so was the rest of the computer.
Fun fact, it can be to have more performance…
Same reason, why the first gen i7 are still the best cpus to use for retro games… this gen has a feature on most mainboards to detect usb sticks as floppy drives and even to boot from them… some old games need to be booted from floppy, so those i7 are the best hardware to get… the i7 950 costs you like $5 and a board with 24gb ram maybe $30… sometimes you get them even for free…
I have a lanparty build with a i7 950, 24gb ram and a gtx 970…
I used to run Linux off of a 32GB USB 2.0 flashdrive on a crappy laptop. It honestly didn’t work terribly.
This is why I bought a 1TB nvme drive and usb-c 20gbps enclosure and use that as my flash drive. Then its OS capable if needed.
Jokes on you, mi GF lapdop is runnnig its OS on usb c to nvme because m2 port is for eGPU