February 6, 201511 yr Hello Lime Tec. Unraid Users, ;-) i wanted to know if a fast usb-stick would boost the speed of my planned Unraid Server? I wanted to build an Unraid Server an know I'm not sure if a normal USB 3.0 Stick would do it or if it is better to buy a faster stick for it. I wanted to run a TV-Server DVR also on the Unraid server an some things like Owncloud, Plex etc.
February 6, 201511 yr Hello Lime Tec. Unraid Users, ;-) i wanted to know if a fast usb-stick would boost the speed of my planned Unraid Server? I wanted to build an Unraid Server an know I'm not sure if a normal USB 3.0 Stick would do it or if it is better to buy a faster stick for it. I wanted to run a TV-Server DVR also on the Unraid server an some things like Owncloud, Plex etc. The speed of your USB stick will have virtually no impact on the speed of your server. It may slightly improve the boot speed, but that's about it.
February 13, 201511 yr Author Oh ok, THX for that. So i can also buy a cheap stick to run in the server. Is it useful to buy a SLC-Stick for the resistance of the stick that the stick don't crash to early?
February 13, 201511 yr Yes, an SLC stick might improve reliability. Prior guidance has been to buy from a reliable manufacturer. The writes to the stick are limited and it is unusual to find a user report that theirs has failed. The size is also not too important. 1G is enough although I don't think you could buy anything less than 4G. I have a 4G SanDisk on one server and a16G SanDisk on the other. Both in service for 3+ years. YMMV Don't stress over your flash. Other decisions are much more important!
February 13, 201511 yr Don't stress over your flash. Other decisions are much more important! Agreed! Simply make sure you make a backup of the flash to a computer/drive that is not reliant on unRAID and that'll be good!
February 14, 201511 yr Don't stress over your flash. Other decisions are much more important! Agreed! Simply make sure you make a backup of the flash to a computer/drive that is not reliant on unRAID and that'll be good! Actually a backup flash can be dangerous. The current array configuration is stored on the flash. If the configuration changes and you restore an old configuration via the backup you can really mess up the array and lose data. I recommend a screen shot of the array config. With that the array can be reconstructed.
February 14, 201511 yr What I do is make a backup of the flash drive after changes to the config, then upload it to my OneDrive.
February 14, 201511 yr What I do is make a backup of the flash drive after changes to the config, then upload it to my OneDrive. As long as you are diligent that is fine. But rebuilding a flash is pretty easy. The backup is not something I recommend. Even if I had a backup, I'd be hard pressed to remember if the backup was the most recent config or not in case of an emergency. I'd likely still build it from scratch.
February 14, 201511 yr Backing up a flash drive is like any other backup -- it's only good if you keep it current. That said, I back mine up every time I make any change to it and save that separately from my general backups; and in addition it's automatically backed up every night when my general backup script runs that backs up all of my PC's. It's trivial to automate this -- just have a scheduled task run a copy from \\Tower\flash to wherever you want to save it [e.g. \\Backups\UnRAID01 - Tower\FlashBackup ].
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