Can external USB SSD (instead USB stick) be target for 'burning' ISO for 'live' system?
by rfoLqOrg from LinuxQuestions.org on (#6HPKD)
Usually USB thumb drives ('sticks') are the targets for 'burning' a
(Linux) ISO to it, for use as a bootable 'live' (Linux) session.
Can an external USB-connected SSD serve that very same purpose, using the very same process of 'burning' and booting?
If yes, would that be a (costly, for sure) way to get a longer life-time (lots of write cycles when used frequently) out of this medium, as opposed to USB sticks?
Or is this a naive thought when -say - the ISO being 4 GB on both media and only these 4 GBs get hammered in just the same way, with then similar wear-down? Meaning the rest of the storage is wasted?
I ask this knowing about Persistence on live media and also about the possibility of doing a full install on to that external SSD. Both these options carried so many problems and caveats, at least according to my research, that I do not want to go that way.
Hence the above idea.
Finally, is thinking about an external HDD (instead of SSD) for the requested purpose even feasible?
(Linux) ISO to it, for use as a bootable 'live' (Linux) session.
Can an external USB-connected SSD serve that very same purpose, using the very same process of 'burning' and booting?
If yes, would that be a (costly, for sure) way to get a longer life-time (lots of write cycles when used frequently) out of this medium, as opposed to USB sticks?
Or is this a naive thought when -say - the ISO being 4 GB on both media and only these 4 GBs get hammered in just the same way, with then similar wear-down? Meaning the rest of the storage is wasted?
I ask this knowing about Persistence on live media and also about the possibility of doing a full install on to that external SSD. Both these options carried so many problems and caveats, at least according to my research, that I do not want to go that way.
Hence the above idea.
Finally, is thinking about an external HDD (instead of SSD) for the requested purpose even feasible?