Fastest/Best USB 3.0 Drives for installing OSs

Lobstor

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basically I have been using one 32GB USB 2.0 drive to install OSs for years and its probably close to dying. considering I have written OS images to it and formatted it at least over 100 times.

What I'm looking at doing is replacing this single USB Drive with a small collection of newer/faster ones so that I have an USB for each OS image (win 7 Home/Pro, win 8.1 Home/homePrem/Pro and win 10 Home/Pro etc). Ones that I could clip on a keychain and are capless would be more preferred.

I'm just wondering what drives people would recommend for this? I have used a SanDisk Extreme 64GB drive in the past and this one wasn't recognized sometimes and didn't work with UEFI for some reason (I'm guessing because it was over 32GB).

Size wise I'm thinking I could get away with 8GB Drives but I'm thinking 16GB would give me some space to put some other apps and tools on them as well.

Anyways let me know what you guys think?
 

Lobstor

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I had a friend just recommend an Zalman ZM-VE350 2.5” USB3.0 External HDD Case. He said just throw a 128GB SSD in there and then you can use the toggle wheel on the side to select which ISO you want to mount and use it as a virtual DVD drive.