• ManosTheHandsOfFate@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    Flash drives are definitely better than burning ISOs to disc, but don’t forget that we had CD-RW discs that allowed multiple burns.

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      10 months ago

      Just in case you don’t already know this: of you’re frequently fiddling with ISO files on a flash drive, go check out Ventoy! It lets you put multiple iso files directly on the drive and will offer a boot menu of which one to use. It’s brilliant. Plus you can still use the rest of the space on the stick for regular storage as usual.

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      10 months ago

      In HS photography class the teacher gave us CD-RW discs to use as flash drives to keep our pictures on and they actually lasted all semester using them every day.

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        10 months ago

        i never thought the rw discs worked well enough to be trustworthy but for the application you described ie not critical it did the job. damn i remember those days. so glad about usb drives and now i guess everyone just uses cloud.