Yes, I know I can find those on Aliexpress, and random unheard of Hong Kong or Chinese names on Amazon... but I would trust those about as much as I would trust a RAID 0 made out of a hundred Darkstar drives.
Are there any respectable brands that still make drives like these? I help troubleshoot computer problems for friends and family, and I want to create bootable live-USBs of tools and applications to assist with this. Issue is that half the time it's a malware infection, and I don't want to risk infecting said USB drives, so I wanted a switch that physically disables writes that I can switch them to read-only when using them and only enable writes when I am manually updating them myself. Back when optical drives were still standard this wasn't an issue, but now that those are long gone for 99% of people...
Are there any respectable brands that still make drives like these? I help troubleshoot computer problems for friends and family, and I want to create bootable live-USBs of tools and applications to assist with this. Issue is that half the time it's a malware infection, and I don't want to risk infecting said USB drives, so I wanted a switch that physically disables writes that I can switch them to read-only when using them and only enable writes when I am manually updating them myself. Back when optical drives were still standard this wasn't an issue, but now that those are long gone for 99% of people...