[BALUG-Talk] Flash drives for Lubuntu 14.04 4 bit

[Michael Paoli]

Most flash drive should work "fine", or well enough,
at least if I'm guestimating the intended Lubuntu usage
correctly.  At least with what I've seen on most failures,
it's typically been lower quality flash media, with a fair
amount to fairly heavy writes/rewrites.  I think failures
are more rare when typical usage is read-mostly - and I'm
presuming that would be the case for your Lubuntu usage?
Would I be correct in presuming ISO images to boot from
on USB, and only occasionally updating the image on the
USB flash?  If so, the overwhelming majority of USB
flash out there should work quite well enough for that.

For more regular writes/rewrites, reasonably good
quality does seem to matter.  And that doesn't always
strongly correlate to price, but there's typically at least
some fair degree of correlation.  Basically, for heavier use -
especially lots of writes/rewrites, usually decent name brand
stuff works longer and more reliably than cheap no-name/off-brand stuff.

Your mileage may vary, but that's been my general experience.

Also, if one watches sales 'n such, can often get 20% to 30% or more off,
at least once in a while - at least for physical stores ...
on-line "deals"/sales, may not dip as much in price.

4 bit ... I presume 64 bit?

> From: "Christian Einfeldt" <einfeldt@gmail.com>
> Subject: [BALUG-Talk] Flash drives for Lubuntu 14.04 4 bit
> Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2017 18:26:01 -0700

> Does anyone have any recommendations / precautions about which flash drives
> to use or to avoid for Lubuntu 14.04?  I am assuming that pretty much any
> flash drive will work.  I have never had any problems, but I just wanted to
> check to make sure.  Thanks!