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[-] hellfire103@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 week ago

Yep! I just installed Void about ten minutes ago off a 2GB stick from the mid-2000s. Somehow, those little sticks just keep going!

[-] ma1w4re@lemm.ee 6 points 1 week ago

Same! I have a 4gb white SanDisk stick, from like 12-14 years ago and is still working ๐Ÿ’€๐Ÿ’€ it even died on me once, and started working again after a few days ๐Ÿ˜ณ๐Ÿ˜ณ

[-] f4f4f4f4f4f4f4f4@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 week ago

Keep them around. I was playing with and testing some ~15 years old mobos for work, and they would not boot from any USB3.0 stick I tried. Same images on an 8GB USB2.0 stick booted with no problem.

Name and shame: Biostar motherboard

[-] boonhet@lemm.ee 1 points 1 week ago

Don't worry, you can still buy USB 2.0 sticks nowadays.

They're priced almost the same as USB 3.whatever sticks. Literally. Add an euro or 2 and double the capacity and go to usb 3.0

[-] kekmacska@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 week ago

for an usb, it might work. For such an old hard drive, it won't. Linux will refuse to boot

[-] lnxtx@feddit.nl 1 points 1 week ago

I don't think so. Block device is a block device.

Maybe you have better knowledge, please elaborate.

[-] kekmacska@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 week ago

i know it from experience. When i wanted to install a modern Linux on a 2009 hdd, it installed, but simply refused to boot, even though hdsentinel said the hdd is 100โ„… healthy

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