April 6, 201313 yr I'm about to take the plunge and upgrade to the Plus license. However, my current USB boot drive is blacklisted. I'm unable to find clear instructions on what procedure/best practices to follow when migrating to a new USB. I would like to preserve the array as-is. I'm guessing there is a post on here outlining this in detail, but my poor searching skills can't seem to come up with it. Also, what are the current recommendations for acceptable USB drives?
April 6, 201313 yr Just copy over all the files to the new flash drive. That's it. As for brands, I'm partial to SanDisk drives. They're all I ever use. Using a 2GB 'Blade' (http://bit.ly/Z7siFG) for my unraid flash drive and a 8GB 'Fit' (http://bit.ly/10m08K3) for my ESXi flash drive.
April 6, 201313 yr One of these (Kingston Flash Card Reader MobileLite G2 USB 2.0) http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002RT69QQ/ref=oh_details_o06_s00_i00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 will let you swap the card with a new different one if it goes bad. The reader carries the guid and I know this one is unique. There's a version 3 out if you have USB 3. Not sure if it has a unique guid or not, but my guess is it does.
April 6, 201313 yr One of these (Kingston Flash Card Reader MobileLite G2 USB 2.0) http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002RT69QQ/ref=oh_details_o06_s00_i00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 will let you swap the card with a new different one if it goes bad. The reader carries the guid and I know this one is unique. There's a version 3 out if you have USB 3. Not sure if it has a unique guid or not, but my guess is it does. If you want a big honkin' dongle thing sticking off the USB port. But as long as you're not constantly writing to it, a quality flash drive like the ones SanDisk make should last you a long time. I've got SanDisk flash drives from 10 years ago that still work great. My 4GB SanDisk Titanium has been in my pocket daily for the last 6 or 7 years. That includes a couple trips through the washer too. And in the case it does die, Tom will swap the license to a new GUID for you.
April 7, 201313 yr One of these (Kingston Flash Card Reader MobileLite G2 USB 2.0) http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002RT69QQ/ref=oh_details_o06_s00_i00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 will let you swap the card with a new different one if it goes bad. The reader carries the guid and I know this one is unique. There's a version 3 out if you have USB 3. Not sure if it has a unique guid or not, but my guess is it does. If you want a big honkin' dongle thing sticking off the USB port. But as long as you're not constantly writing to it, a quality flash drive like the ones SanDisk make should last you a long time. I've got SanDisk flash drives from 10 years ago that still work great. My 4GB SanDisk Titanium has been in my pocket daily for the last 6 or 7 years. That includes a couple trips through the washer too. And in the case it does die, Tom will swap the license to a new GUID for you. Yes but with the reader you don't need to worry about writing to it too much and having to involve Tom to transfer the license. If you burn it out just buy a new memory card and put it into the reader and restore your backup of the drive and your back in business. Also mine is mounted inside my case so it doesn't matter how big it is.
April 7, 201313 yr One of these (Kingston Flash Card Reader MobileLite G2 USB 2.0) http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002RT69QQ/ref=oh_details_o06_s00_i00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 will let you swap the card with a new different one if it goes bad. The reader carries the guid and I know this one is unique. There's a version 3 out if you have USB 3. Not sure if it has a unique guid or not, but my guess is it does. If you want a big honkin' dongle thing sticking off the USB port. But as long as you're not constantly writing to it, a quality flash drive like the ones SanDisk make should last you a long time. I've got SanDisk flash drives from 10 years ago that still work great. My 4GB SanDisk Titanium has been in my pocket daily for the last 6 or 7 years. That includes a couple trips through the washer too. And in the case it does die, Tom will swap the license to a new GUID for you. Yes but with the reader you don't need to worry about writing to it too much and having to involve Tom to transfer the license. If you burn it out just buy a new memory card and put it into the reader and restore your backup of the drive and your back in business. Also mine is mounted inside my case so it doesn't matter how big it is. Mine is also mounted inside my case, however, looking at that card reader I'm pretty sure I wouldn't be able to plug it in. My internal USB socket is right next to my sata cables, so, even if it did fit I'd have no way of plugging in one, maybe two, sata cables into the board.
April 7, 201313 yr Mine is also mounted inside my case, however, looking at that card reader I'm pretty sure I wouldn't be able to plug it in. My internal USB socket is right next to my sata cables, so, even if it did fit I'd have no way of plugging in one, maybe two, sata cables into the board. My MobileLite came with a USB extension cable that only takes up the same space around it that the USB port does. That is how I have mine plugged in. I wouldn't be able to just plug in the unit to the board either without the 2 inch extension cable.
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