![]() ![]() Their purpose would mostly be to just sit on a shelf until a moment of need. I referred to these little old drives as “reference” drives. But since they were small and old, the better solution in most cases would be to clone them to a larger and faster target drive, and then use the target drive to boot the operating system. In a pinch, I could run the operating system from one of those drives. It occurred to me that one legitimate end-of-life role for relatively smaller and older USB drives would be to treat them as working physical repositories of recent versions of Windows or Linux system drives. ![]() ![]() For instance, they might be stored on a drive that I couldn’t get to at the moment, for one reason or another. Meanwhile, sometimes I found that backup drive images weren’t always an ideal solution. As faster and newer USB drives became available and affordable, I began to accumulate little old USB drives that I didn’t really need anymore. ![]()
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