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I usually zero out the disks a few times to make sure they are nice and clean, never know what crap they put in those things

I usually zero out the disks a few times to make sure they are nice and clean, never know what crap they put in those things

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[–] • 12 pts

You should always immediately erase a drive before use. Any drive, any source.

Only problem with that is the microcontrollers and onboard program storage is large enough to put almost anything in these days. Flash drives are more powerful than my first computer.

[–] • 2 pts

Most reliable way is to write random data to the entire disk, then verify all of it. The disk can't fake storing it, as it could if you zeroed it.

[–] • 3 pts

I usually just dd something on to it, and see where it stops. I've never had one of the recirculating firmware drives that just keeps taking data but doesn't store it - but then again I don't buy 1TB flash drives from wish.com for 9.95$

[–] • 6 pts (edited )

I first run to verify the size then badblocks to verify everything works. The last pass of badblocks (with the -wvs options) zeroes the drive. Then the drive gets a fresh partition and format.

[–] • 3 pts

you always verify the size and format,

[–] • 1 pt

Just think how much white peoples' time is wasted dealing with Chinese fuckery. Just in flash drives, if every white person bought and checked a new drive every three years and spent ten minutes checking there would be about 11.6 million man hours wasted every year in the US alone. That's the productivity of 5,500 full time white people down the drain just to make sure cheating chinks aren't pulling one over on us.

[–] • 2 pts

No. I run h2testw to check size and speed. It overwrites all free space.

[–] • 1 pt (edited )

My USB sticks tend to go through a constant state of bit rape for a while, when they're new

I flash ISOs on those mostly, then I use them for casual storage/sharing, I don't think I have a USB 3.0 stick, it's all 2.0

[–] • 0 pt

I just stick 'em in my computer and write to them. I know, I'm a bad computer person.

[–] • 0 pt

I reformat them to NTFS, most are FAT32 out of the box.

[–] • 0 pt

Won't do any good; usb devices can present themselves as multiple different devices at the same time and could easily claim to be a keyboard, mouse, audio input/output, network interface, or any number of things with the potential to enter or receive data in addition to the device you expect, and you'd have absolutely no way to know unless you knew what to look for in your system's logs. Unless you just mean autoplay scripts, which in that case windows luckily does not run those by default any more.

[–] • 0 pt

You still use USBs in 2022?

I haven't used USB sticks in over a decade.

[–] • 3 pts

You don't need physical storage devices that you control. Trust the cloud, goyim! (((We))) will keep everything safe and accessible for you!

[–] • 0 pt

Why do I need cloud storage, again? My desktop computer has all the storage space I could possibly need and then some. I even have 4K movies ILLEGALLY downloaded to watch later as well as several games installed that I play on the weekends. Still a shitload of storage that I see no possible way to ever use up. Anything else I need to transfer between devices (mobile), can be done via bluetooth or direct connections OR using remote control apps from desktop or mobile.

Seriously, try out an app like Teamviewer. Just buy better hard drives and stop using USB sticks. Ensure your Mother Board has bluetooth capability. Discard outdated tech.

Did you REALLY have to strawman me this hard to try and feel better about using USB sticks?

[–] • 1 pt

USB sticks are good for things like Vento when you need to liveboot, run memtest, Windows installer DVD to get into a recovery console, etc.

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Did you REALLY have to strawman me this hard to try and feel better about using USB sticks?

REEEEEEEEEEEE!

You tried to shame others for using portable USB storage devices while simultaneously virtue signaling that you haven't used them for 10 years and provided no information about what you are using instead of them. Don't denigrate people for using a technology that has its uses more than ever before and then get upset when someone calls you out for it.

Seriously, try out an app like Teamviewer. Just buy better hard drives and stop using USB sticks. Ensure your Mother Board has bluetooth capability. Discard outdated tech.

Teamviewer. KEK! Yeah, that's much better and secure than USB drives! Better hard drives aren't the issue here. Portability is the reason why you use a PORTABLE storage device. Bluetooth for file transfer is like using LapLink over the serial port back in 1993. It's slow and has a lot of limitations that USB drives beat all around. BT is itself becoming outdated tech because the only feature it sort of lived up to from the hype was crappy wireless audio uses. Bluetooth dropped the ball on all the other promises it made so as far as I'm concerned, it's totally obsolete outside of nigger speakers and ear buds. But go ahead and continue to use it to make you feel better about ditching USB storage.