A single USB stick can save your PC - here's how

While USB flash drives have largely fallen out of vogue, they can be handy as a backup when cloud backups or other solutions fail to save Windows.
Pocket-lint

3 good reasons I'll never use a USB stick again (and you shouldn't either)

Craig is a reporter for Pocket-lint based in Toronto. He earned a diploma in journalism from Seneca Polytechnic and holds a Media Foundations certificate from Humber College. Craig previously interned ...

Can this $3 USB stick actually save your old PC from the scrap pile?

Google and Back Market are teaming up to offer $3 USB sticks that install ChromeOS Flex. It seems like a great way to save ...

Google and BackMarket’s ChromeOS Flex USB drive wants to keep aging PCs alive

A new ChromeOS Flex USB program from Google and Back Market aims to revive aging laptops by letting users easily install Google’s lightweight operating system. The post Google and BackMarket’s ...
Ars Technica

How to put root hard drive to sleep? or How to use USB stick as root?

I run a media box that is on all the time, but only actually doing anything for short bursts of time. It is a pretty standard Ubuntu Gutsy set up, with media files on separate hard drives. I would ...