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USB Drives — Recovery?

Posted by kdawson on from the just-for-the-flash-of-it dept.

pipingguy writes "Now that 'thumb drives' are so inexpensive (a 1-GB SD card with USB housing/adapter costs about $25), which programs does Slashdot recommend for system recovery? What is the need-to-have software? Additionally, I'd like to get some input on the durability of the newish card reader / adapter devices, as some of them seem to be pretty flimsy (but very useful/flexible as opposed to the old fixed-capacity NAND devices)."

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  1. Thumb Drive by black6host · · Score: 4, Insightful

    As far as thumb drives go I'd recommend the Titanium Cruzer which comes into up to 2 gig models. I keep mine on my keychan which is outiside on my harley 365 days a year. Rain or shine, and here in Florida we get a lot of rain. I've pretty much abused it much more than I expected to and it's never failed me once. I'll leave others to comment on what to put on it but if you're loadking up a pice of crap that's what your going to have just when you need it at your clients office. Quality tools pay for themselves.

    Regards,
    Fleet

  2. the same ones you used before... by skiingyac · · Score: 4, Insightful

    ...when you copied to CD/DVD/FTP/SMB/whatever.

    why is this on the front page?

  3. Fire wire harddisk by Joe+The+Dragon · · Score: 3, Insightful

    are better when you need to restore a image to a system