<div dir="ltr">The Patriot X series are proper quick -- <a href="http://www.newegg.com/Patriot-Memory-USB-Flash-Drives/BrandSubCat/ID-2204-522">http://www.newegg.com/Patriot-Memory-USB-Flash-Drives/BrandSubCat/ID-2204-522</a><div><br></div><div>I use one to install Xbox 360 games to -- <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B007JPVYFO/ref=oh_aui_search_detailpage?ie=UTF8&psc=1">http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B007JPVYFO/ref=oh_aui_search_detailpage?ie=UTF8&psc=1</a></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Dec 19, 2014 at 4:15 PM, Chris Fowler <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cfowler@outpostsentinel.com" target="_blank">cfowler@outpostsentinel.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:12pt;color:#000000"><div>I picked up a 32GB PNY USB stick off Amazon and decided to copy 22G of my development root onto it as backup. I develop on CentOS 5.7 in Ubuntu 12.04. How? chroot into that tree.</div><div><br></div><div>I have rsync scripts I use to backup RPis and BBBs to a 1T USB SATA device. I copied that onto the stick after I formated it ext3.</div><div><br></div><div>It was slow. Dog slow. My scripts are using options that would slow it down so I decided to do an initial seed using CP. That took almost a day to do.</div><div>Now the rsync script can get changes as I decide to.</div><div><br></div><div>I've never tried to copy a system that large to a USB stick . I've coped files, but not that many. The SATA 1T on USB is much faster. It is just a 1T SATA drive in a sled.</div><div><br></div><div>Is that the nature of these USB sticks? I'm just curious.</div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><br></div><div>Chris</div></font></span></div></div><br>_______________________________________________<br>
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