Review on 📀 IODD Iodd2531 USB3.0 HDD SSD Virtual CD-ROM Enclosures (1 Unit/Lot) - Made in Korea by Bryan Aleman

Read only! Boot from the menu from any ISO image on the disc, just like a physical CD! Mount CD-ROM and/or hard disk at the same time! For the past 18 years I have had the habit (and sometimes still do) of using computers to assemble/repair/etc. to take home. and stumbled across something similar a few years ago, then about a year or two later the mini USB broke and nobody has made drives like this for years. I've lost count of the number of times my USB flash drives have been infected and overwritten (even formatted and one with the USB killer code) and finally refused to format the device and most (or all) of the client's data lost. This is NOT a recovery, it's called Erase and Restore and I hate erasing years of data on someone's computer. Bootable CD? I had to carry around 20-30 of them, you never know what version or format will work on some computers. Oh, and they get corrupted easily, nothing beats taking a 20+ minute journey to help someone without internet due to a virus and finding out the only utility you need from all your CDs is scratched. Time for more than 40 minutes roundtrip (if you find a new CD, find a copy of the utility, burn it with no problems, then test it) and then forget it in the CD drive. USB bridges with forensic write protection? Is there a big burn? Good physical writer blockers don't come cheap, and even then I don't think you get the option to boot or mount the ISO image. I found this article and found it to be an updated version of what I was using all along (but without the slow and outdated mini USB connection). So I quickly ordered it and a laptop SSD. I threw some utensils on it, grabbed the iso and threw it in my backpack. He did computer repairs, took it to the mountains in the rain, cold, dust, used it as a backup drive for video footage on hikes and hunts. Inexpensive, versatile, powerful, I like it! And I really have no idea why they're so rare, or why no techie I've spoken to even knows about the read-only USB drive shell with awesome CD emulation.