January 30, 20242 yr I'm getting into Unraid for the first time. I saw several references to buying a flash drive between 1 and 32GB. In this post, the recommended drives are bigger than 32GB. Can someone clarify the size limitation?
January 30, 20242 yr Community Expert Solution 6 minutes ago, Stu1811 said: I'm getting into Unraid for the first time. I saw several references to buying a flash drive between 1 and 32GB. In this post, the recommended drives are bigger than 32GB. Can someone clarify the size limitation? The reason that 32GB is mentioned is that the flash drive needs to be formatted as FAT32 and Windows does not support as standard doing this on drives over 32GB. Also Unraid only needs something like 1-2GB on the flash drive so large drives have lots of space that will never be used.
January 30, 20242 yr I remember that thread, don't know why you think it recommended bigger than 32GB. I would say 4GB to 32GB. USB2 will often be more reliable and no real benefit to speed for the boot flash.
January 30, 20242 yr Author Oh, Windows. 😆 My existing system is Ubuntu so that shouldn't be a problem. If I format the drive to fat32 and then run make_bootable_linux I should be fine?
January 30, 20242 yr Author 4 minutes ago, trurl said: I remember that thread, don't know why you think it recommended bigger than 32GB. I would say 4GB to 32GB. USB2 will often be more reliable and no real benefit to speed for the boot flash. I looked at the first one and the smallest Samsung BAR Plus is 64GB.
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