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What size SD card should I get to create a recovery disk?
I just bought an inspiron 11 3000 series 2-in-1 for my son for school.
God knows, he'll probably load tons of stuff on it that will eventually slow it down to a crawl and I'll need to refresh it before the school year's up. So, I want to create a system disc for it before he starts using it and I want use a fresh card solely for that so I can keep it safe and no have it used for something else.
How big of a disk do I need to create this recovery and system disk? I used to just use the old CD's but, that was back when I really was just reinstalling the generic Windows and didn't care about the drivers and such for my desktops. I want to keep his laptop pretty much factory OEM to make our lives a little easier in the long run.
Would an 8gb be plenty for this?
Thanks
rkdowner
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August 18th, 2016 09:00
This flash drive will be dedicated to the backup, so anything over 16G is wasted. 64G may be a better value in general, but in this case I recommend the cheapest 16G thumb drive you can find, and I'd also make two just to be safe.
ejn63
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August 18th, 2016 07:00
You need a 16G or larger flash drive -- given current prices, the sweet spot of price/gig is at 64G now - though the 32s aren't much more expensive per gigabyte.
johnmcd348
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August 18th, 2016 21:00
OK. thanks.
So I should look more at Thumb Drives than SD cards?
I've never done these with the newer, Non-Optical Drive, computers before. I've always had a CD/DVD/BluRay player on all my computers so this is new to me.
rkdowner
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August 18th, 2016 22:00
Yeah, I doubt your computer can boot from the SD card, so you're best off using a USB thumb drive. I'm actually considering a USB DVD drive because we have so many laptops now that don't have them built in. But on the other hand one would be enough for the whole family.