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Seems like one should be enough for just a secure wallet and occassionally tor browsing/purchasing?

You need something to store your wallet file unless you are planning on restoring your wallet from the seed every time you want to use it.

right but somehow using two makes it untraceable? If i'm just browsing through darkwebmarkets and using secure wallets should installing it using 1 usb drive be enough?

One should be enough, but then again, I don't use TAILS. Where do you see that you need two USB drives to be "untraceable"?

I can confirm as a long time old user of Tails OS that 1 USB or 1 DVD is enough to keep you anonymous. What you should do is to restore from the seed anytime you want to use the Electrum wallet, and before logging in choose to not access your hard disk if you do not need to download files. If you need to download some files check the box that says to access your hard disk and once you finish your session transfer the downloaded files in a USB. This is the best tool for the normal people to keep their identity private in this world of spying from everywhere and every agency.

https://tails.boum.org/install/index.en.html

standard installatonoftas sas to use two usb drives an even using 2nd computer when installing 2nd drive

But storing bitcoins on 2nd USB drive is compromise between security and convenience. You don't need to risk seed everytime you want spend bitcoins.

there is a link in green text saying "why 2" if you click it you can see the reason. and what that means is just for installation of Tails not for using it.
and the first USB is only used for booting up Tails in live mode using the UUI app for windows. you can use a DVD too. just burn the ISO on it and boot up to install on one USB! (USB is much faster though)

when you write the tails iso to a disk it uses the entire disk. so you need a second one for persistent storage. persistent storage could also be on your hard drive. it's encrypted so placing on your HDD is not a problem.

so excuse my newbness... what is the 2nd hard drive for in laymen terms? extra security? "being truly untraceable"?


still dont understand what this persistent storage means

Persistent storage means whatever you save while you are on the OS of the USB will be saved on it.

By default Tails loads and operates completely in RAM... so as soon as you shutdown or restart the computer, all traces and data are wiped. It is the "amnesic" part of "The Amnesic Incognito Live System" ;)

Persistent Storage is used if you need to save data between sessions... this can be place on another usb stick, an external hard drive or, as mentioned, an encrypted partition created on an internal hard drive.

no it doesn't. Tails is like any other linux distribution as far as i know with the difference that it -by default- doesn't store anything and wipes out everything after you sign off.
and the persistence is what you can enable to store the data you need later. and it can be stored in that same 1 USB, it will create a new file with the specified size (it is called casper-rw) and stores everything there.

as i said above the second USB is only used as a medium to boot up the ISO and install it. if you are already on a Linux OS you don't even need that, you can install on that USB inside your OS.

so wouldn't this decrease security? I'm using this for complete anonymity, just from what i've read on this all this persistent storage does is grant the user the ability to have a fairly to well secure wallet on there for larger sums of BTC, and for that wouldn't a different linux kernal be more secure since tails seems more widely used and easier to hack? Wouldn't ubuntu be even better just for wallet security and protection on a single usb drive and then using the non-persistent storage able version of tails to browse tor and at preserving my privacy and trace-ability online?