June 7, 20251 yr Evening all.Had a bit of recent unfortunate happenings with 2 USB sticks failing on me (both bought brand new but thank god for backups!) and want to know if I can use one of these to boot from with an nvme drive: -Link to Amazon nvme caddyFollowing on from some upgrades to laptops, I have a load of NVME drives spare and want to use one for the unraid boot device.For anyone who doesn't like clicking on links, it is a UGREEN M.2 NVMe SSD Enclosure that connects via usbc port and allows for nvme drive to be installed. I think this will be a bit more reliable that a USB stick and wanted to find out if anyone has ever managed to use one like this.Thanks,Hal Edited June 14, 20251 yr by hallamnet
June 7, 20251 yr Community Expert mby... in my testing, this doesn't work the usb needs a GUID. not all nvme addon and USB devices will give teh disk a GUID to use correctly.can you us a ssd / nvme usb device for unraid yes. Trial and error...
June 8, 20251 yr Community Expert I am posting this up as a bit of information about an earlier 'find' to a replacement for the Flash Drive as a boot device for Unraid:https://forums.unraid.net/topic/119052-psa-on-sandisk-usbs/page/6/#findComment-1378298Followed by these comments starting with this post:https://forums.unraid.net/topic/119052-psa-on-sandisk-usbs/page/7/#comment-1384188As you can tell, people are still try to find a reliable replace for the Flash Drive. Unfortunately, to date there has only been the old (and no longer manufactured) Kingston MobileLite G2 and G3 SD card readers. I have two of these that I have used for about 13 years. If an SD card were to fail, all you have to do is load a backup onto (which includes the the .key file) unto any new SD card and make the card bootable. Plug it into the card reader and boot.(Years ago, I use two or three SD cards and when any updated version of Unraid was released, I would upload the *.bz files onto one of my spare SD Cards, shut the server down, swap cards, and restart the server. I have never had an SD card fail! Currently, I have 16GB SD cards for each server. I hope those drives don't fail as I don't know if I can get an SD card as small as 32GB!!!) Edited June 8, 20251 yr by Frank1940
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