If you want to create a bootable media, you prefer to CD or ISO

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XavierMace

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Yes, they do take significantly longer to copy to flash drives; particularly USB 2.0 drives. If we are talking USB 3.0 drives, they are a bit faster but still not even close to five minutes and for the price of one, a 100pk of DVDs can be had. Bootable USB drives are just impractical comparatively.

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corkyg

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Sometimes the term ISO is used rather loosely. Basically, it is an image file. CD is a type of media that can be used to contain an ISO image file. Same for DVD, etc. All are generically optical media.

http://www.winxdvd.com/resource/iso.htm

Flash drives can also contain ISO images.