Star Wars Fan looking for a cool USB 3.0 drive?
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Someone's looking to get the funding together to make a run of USB 3.0 flash drives that look like the rank/data sticks that the Imperial Officers wear in Star Wars.
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Cute. I don't know anyone regularly using USB anymore though for storage. For boot devices that are permanent yes. But I don't see people carrying them around anymore.
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I have a couple in my laptop bag but I rarely use them.
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I have them all over. But haven't bought one in years.
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The only place I use these is on customer sites when they need something downloaded (and aren't connected to internet for whatever reason).
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I haven't used one in years.
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We use them in the lab but not in production.
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I use them around the office occasionally.
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I use them to boot Clonezilla since I haven't setup a PXE boot system yet.
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It's amazing how few companies have PXE boot. Even big ones.
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I wonder if it's really worth the effort for PXE booting when you can so easily boot from a USB stick. Even in large companies what are the chances that users would ever boot to the PXE environment?
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PXE is popular for server build processes.
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@scottalanmiller said:
PXE is popular for server build processes.
You and I live in different worlds. I build so many desktops, and very few servers. Of course I'd love to turn that around...
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If you build lots of anything PXE becomes nice. No need to carry anything and you can initiate rebuilds remotely.
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USB drives are handy for working with machines that fail to boot properly. Booting to a Linux USB drive is a great way to clear out most basic malware infections in less than 15 minutes.
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For the Empire!
...Oh, wait, wrong empire.
