Isostick: a flash drive that impersonates an optical drive
Insert the flash drive into the USB port - and a new USB Mass Storage Device device appears in the system plus a new USB CD / DVD drive. This is how the Isostick flash drive works - a flash drive is ideal for recording ISO images, including boot files. Most importantly, you can burn a lot of bootable ISOs to it , and the built-in bootloader (isosel) will allow you to switch between them when booting from a USB CD / DVD drive. If you need several operating systems, then this device is more convenient than using programs like UNetBootin, grub, etc.
The flash drive will be made and go on sale in a few weeks, when they collect enough money to order production. If everything goes well, the author promises to put the firmware under an open license, so that anyone can make such devices on their own.
Inside the device is a microSD card (non-removable) with a read speed of 12.5 MB / s and 4-6 MB / s write. With a capacity of 32 GB on such a flash drive, you can write all the operating systems that you have available. While only the FAT32 file system is supported, the author is exploring the possibility of supporting NTFS, HFS + and ext2 / 3/4.
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This is the perfect thing for administrators and other geeks who like to download from the Internet something in the form of ISO. However, there you can write any files, not only ISO - from the point of view of the operating system, these will be files on a CD / DVD.
Of the additional options on the flash drive is the read-only switch and the activity LED, which can also be turned off.
At the moment, you can buy a flash drive / invest through an incubator Kickstarter. An investor for $ 75 receives a flash drive for 8 GB, for $ 125 - 16 GB, $ 175 - 16 GB, $ 225 - 32 GB. All investment packages include not only a flash drive, but also a set of stickers. Delivery to countries outside the United States costs an additional $ 15.
The flash drive will be made and go on sale in a few weeks, when they collect enough money to order production. If everything goes well, the author promises to put the firmware under an open license, so that anyone can make such devices on their own.
Inside the device is a microSD card (non-removable) with a read speed of 12.5 MB / s and 4-6 MB / s write. With a capacity of 32 GB on such a flash drive, you can write all the operating systems that you have available. While only the FAT32 file system is supported, the author is exploring the possibility of supporting NTFS, HFS + and ext2 / 3/4.
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This is the perfect thing for administrators and other geeks who like to download from the Internet something in the form of ISO. However, there you can write any files, not only ISO - from the point of view of the operating system, these will be files on a CD / DVD.
Of the additional options on the flash drive is the read-only switch and the activity LED, which can also be turned off.
At the moment, you can buy a flash drive / invest through an incubator Kickstarter. An investor for $ 75 receives a flash drive for 8 GB, for $ 125 - 16 GB, $ 175 - 16 GB, $ 225 - 32 GB. All investment packages include not only a flash drive, but also a set of stickers. Delivery to countries outside the United States costs an additional $ 15.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/125212/
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