Do people still use USB sticks?
I have a Sandisk Extreme 16gb and it has been fantastic however I also have a Sandisk Ultra 32gb and it absolutely sucks. Any recomendations?
I am thinking I’ll get a 256gb Sandisk Extreme Pro but I’m hesitant. An activity LED is ideal. I just use it for general backups of software like distro isos for e.g.
Sure, when I need to 
I don’t personally use them to store any permanent data. I use them when sharing with other people, or transferring data to another system. Anything I put on them is generally only a copy. If it’s permanent data, I might suggest an external M.2 drive instead.
They’re also useful as a Live ISO, or for BIOS updates.
My fastest ones are SanDisk Ultra Flair Glide’s, I have in a few sizes (2x 64GB and 128GB). I don’t think they have an LED… but I do understand that could be useful.
Edit:
These are USB 3.2 gen 2, so I would expect these to be SanDisk’s quickest option at the moment.
I didn’t even realise these exist in M.2 tbh. I assume a proper NVME drive will have more reliable NAND Flash on it than a USB stick. Correct?
I use one of these:
Silverstone RVS03
This leaves you free to select the M.2 drive yourself, based on your budget and reliability needs.
Edit: Silverstone’s full catalogue of external M.2 enclosures:
https://www.silverstonetek.com/en/product/storage/?filter=M2_External_Enclosures
For storage, no. (NAND is susceptible to bit-rot)
For sharing data between systems, yes all the time.
I use Ventoy for booting various ISOs but some systems will refuse to boot from Ventoy so I use a USB stick for those. A local tech shop was having a clearout sale one year so I think I bought ten 8GB USB2 sticks for $10 total, which are perfect for building test bootable sticks.
The 3.2 ones are SO much faster, I still have both.
They’re great as bootable USBs, and portable data carriers if I ever needed that.
I still use USB sticks. I have 4 of these. They make great external storage or quickly transfer files locally…
If you have a free PCIe slot, you could also add an expansion card with three, four M.2 drive bays, then add M.2 according to need and budget — similar to the Silverstone enclosure, but permanently inside the PC case.
I have a backup Samsung USB 256GB with Win10, EndeavourOS, MemTest, And other test software sometimes I do have other Linux Distros for testing(but i will not replace EOS).
Never say never pal. I never thought this and that but here we are..
Naaw I’m just looking around sometimes but EndeavourOS is my only Distro 
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