Recommendations on USB stcks storage devices

I am looking for a USB stick device to use for databack up. My size of
the data I would like to back up is between 3 and 4 GiB. In the past I
have succesfully used 1 GiB Lexar USB sticks, but I believe that Lexar
sticks do not come bigger than 1 GiB. I have seen references to other
brands offering 4 GiB USB sticks. However, some USB sticks I have tried to
use under Linux turned out not to be supported at all, or very poorly
supported.

I therefore would like to pleas ask contributors to this forum to
recommend USB sticks, with at least 3 GiB, that are solidly supported
under Linux.

Howard Bryce wrote:
> I am looking for a USB stick device to use for databack up. My size of
> the data I would like to back up is between 3 and 4 GiB. In the past I
> have succesfully used 1 GiB Lexar USB sticks, but I believe that Lexar
> sticks do not come bigger than 1 GiB. I have seen references to other
> brands offering 4 GiB USB sticks. However, some USB sticks I have tried to
> use under Linux turned out not to be supported at all, or very poorly
> supported.
>
> I therefore would like to pleas ask contributors to this forum to
> recommend USB sticks, with at least 3 GiB, that are solidly supported
> under Linux.

I don't know about large USB sticks, but I have a Seagate Pocket drive with 5 GiB capacity that
works for me. This device contains a 1" disk drive with a USB 2.0 interface and is available for
about $90 US. On my SuSE 10.0 system, it is available on /dev/sda1. I use it with Windowz as well,
so I left the original VFAT file system on it, but you could reinitialize it with any
Linux-supported file system. A review is given at http://www.techdigest.tv/2005/01/seagates_pocket.html.

Larry

Howard Bryce wrote:

> I am looking for a USB stick device to use for databack up. My size of
> the data I would like to back up is between 3 and 4 GiB. In the past I
> have succesfully used 1 GiB Lexar USB sticks, but I believe that Lexar
> sticks do not come bigger than 1 GiB. I have seen references to other
> brands offering 4 GiB USB sticks. However, some USB sticks I have tried to
> use under Linux turned out not to be supported at all, or very poorly
> supported.

Its usually the formatting thats been tampered with under windopes.
Need to delete the MBR and re-partition and format to FAT32 with
QtParted so that it works under windopes and Linux equally.

> I therefore would like to pleas ask contributors to this forum to
> recommend USB sticks, with at least 3 GiB, that are solidly supported
> under Linux.

www.ebuyer.com are doing 2Gb USB sticks for 23 pounds + VAT 4Gb for about 70
pound plus VAT.