Cisco usb thumb drives

[simon clarke]

Hi 

can anyone give me the model numbers of the cisco approved USB flash drives, please?

I would like to buy one that will allow me to transfer ios images onto routers and switches but I am unsure of what model to buy.

Thanks in advance

Simon 

[Leo Laohoo · Accepted solution]

Cisco has three varieties of USB thumb drives in CCW: 

• N7K-USB-8GB (Nexus 7K USB Flash Memory, 8 Gb);
• UCS-USBFLSHA-8GB (UCS C22/C24 USB Flash Memory, 8 Gb); and
• UCS-USBFLSHB-16GB (UCS Server USB Flash Memory, 16 Gb)

So far, I've am using a Samsung BAR (SKU: MUF-16BA) with good success.  

[simon clarke]

Hi Leo 

Thank you for taking the time to reply and help me out, i will order a Samsung USB today.

could I ask what process you did to format it? is it just windows format in FAT?

Thanks 

Simon 

[Leo Laohoo]

Stick the USB stick into a Cisco device and format from there: format usb0: