> That sounds like really bad hardware. Mind to share manufacturer name > and model name ? > > (I have a 2 GB Intenso model "USB", a 4 GB SanDisk Cruzer, > a 8 GB Corsair Flash Voyager, and a 128 GB Intenso Ultra Line. > They all are more than 5 years old. I use them rarely, except for the > Corsair, which has a sturdy rubber coating and serves me as encrypted > pocket backup medium.) > >
I believe, it is no problem to share with which usb-sticks I ran into the problem. The sticks are from Intenso. They are silver, and you can buy it in a double pack to a very cheap price here in Germany at a well known market place with a big "M" starting its name. At the moment I am using "SanDisk Ultra USB 3.0" with 64Gb and had no issues with these. These are black and made of plastic, shape is tapering to its end and you can push the contacts out of the case. At the moment I am testing a new one also from SanDisk. This is itsy bity tiny (only 3 cm long, 1cm wide and 3mm high) with 128GB. I am using it as my "prepared-for-the-issue"-stick. I am using YUMI on it (exFAT) and it has now 27 bootable livefilesystems on it (like KALI, GRML, DRBL-Live, clonezilla, TRK, UBCD4WIN, F4BCD usw. usw.). I think, you can imagine. Among these are also my own Version of KALI-Life (built with bootcdwrite, about 25GB) and bigger ones like security-onion (7GB) or TAILS (6,6GB) and smaller ones like Super-grub-disk, TRK, gparted-live and of course, Debian-Install-iso. Collection of proven software for many years. We will see, how well this stick does, as all of these images are regularly upgraded by me. Best Hans
