06-24-2014, 12:51 PM
Actually, that's an interesting question -- what IS the difference between a thumb drive and an SSD?
5 minutes of internet searching seems to suggest that there is no difference. They are both drives that store data on flash memory chips.
(Well, I mean other than SATA vs USB.)
Probably the only thing that makes thumb drives riskier than SSDs is because thumb drives are mostly older technology and mostly not tested to the same level of quality or having the same quality of software that controls them. Throwing something on a thumb drive may simply be like throwing them on the lowest quality, no-name-brand, made-in-a-Chinese-sweatshop SSD. Okay for short term, unimportant tasks but not something you'd want to run your operating system off of on a regular basis purely because the quality is unreliable.
(Although I have heard of people doing that, too. Carry around their operating system on a thumb drive. Lets them boot up into their environment with their stuff on anyone's computer.)
5 minutes of internet searching seems to suggest that there is no difference. They are both drives that store data on flash memory chips.
(Well, I mean other than SATA vs USB.)
Probably the only thing that makes thumb drives riskier than SSDs is because thumb drives are mostly older technology and mostly not tested to the same level of quality or having the same quality of software that controls them. Throwing something on a thumb drive may simply be like throwing them on the lowest quality, no-name-brand, made-in-a-Chinese-sweatshop SSD. Okay for short term, unimportant tasks but not something you'd want to run your operating system off of on a regular basis purely because the quality is unreliable.
(Although I have heard of people doing that, too. Carry around their operating system on a thumb drive. Lets them boot up into their environment with their stuff on anyone's computer.)