We have a customized tech toolkit, it has all the tools we need and is bootable following a guide from rmusbprep.
I used to have 3x 16GB flash drives, one primary that had all my tools on it and the other two as scratch devices for grabbing a few files here and there or in case I needed to make a bootable OS installer or live cd quickly.
However the controllers on these devices are fickle at best, they often just die out of the blue causing me to lose a few days worth of files because I only back it up when I'm in the office and have time to.
At home I have a dimecard(credit card size device for holding sd cards), with several sd and sdhc cards on it.
I've got one that's been in my wii for years with no problems. I've put the dimecard through the laundry at least once in it's life, all the sd cards survived. I also have a few sd card readers, again never had issues with those but they're used less frequently.
I'm going to test if the card readers can be used to make the sd card bootable as I do a flash drive. (I don't see why not)
My theory is typically the usb controller dies on a flash drive (at least in my recent history) and it renders the data irretrievable, if the sd card adapter dies, big deal buy a new one.
TL;DR: I'm leaning toward replacing several USB3 devices with a dimecard, some sdhcs and an sd card adapter, the question is any reason not to?
I used to have 3x 16GB flash drives, one primary that had all my tools on it and the other two as scratch devices for grabbing a few files here and there or in case I needed to make a bootable OS installer or live cd quickly.
However the controllers on these devices are fickle at best, they often just die out of the blue causing me to lose a few days worth of files because I only back it up when I'm in the office and have time to.
At home I have a dimecard(credit card size device for holding sd cards), with several sd and sdhc cards on it.
I've got one that's been in my wii for years with no problems. I've put the dimecard through the laundry at least once in it's life, all the sd cards survived. I also have a few sd card readers, again never had issues with those but they're used less frequently.
I'm going to test if the card readers can be used to make the sd card bootable as I do a flash drive. (I don't see why not)
My theory is typically the usb controller dies on a flash drive (at least in my recent history) and it renders the data irretrievable, if the sd card adapter dies, big deal buy a new one.
TL;DR: I'm leaning toward replacing several USB3 devices with a dimecard, some sdhcs and an sd card adapter, the question is any reason not to?