smakovits Posted January 25, 2016 Share Posted January 25, 2016 Does unRAID benefit at all from the increased speed provided by USB 3.0? Quote Link to comment
Sh0dan Posted January 25, 2016 Share Posted January 25, 2016 Are we talking about a drive in your pool connected via USB, or the unRAID flash disk itself? The former, yes (though I wouldn't recommend). The later, no. If I'm not mistaken, unRAID is loaded into RAM on system startup. I've personally tried both and haven't noticed a difference. Quote Link to comment
John_M Posted January 25, 2016 Share Posted January 25, 2016 Do you mean for the boot flash device? I don't think the necessary drivers are present for unRAID to boot from a USB 3 port. unRAID can't use disks attached by USB. So that really just leaves unassigned devices managed by the Unassigned Devices plugin, which does benefit from the extra speed of USB 3. Quote Link to comment
smakovits Posted January 25, 2016 Author Share Posted January 25, 2016 yes for the flash device with the OS. I was looking to purchase a new flash drive and the question was between the 8GB 2.0 and the 16GB 3.0 and if the $2 was worth it. Not a huge savings, but if it is for something that will never be touched, then why bother with the 3.0. @john_M I have my flash stick plugged into the USB 3 port right now, so booting from the port would appear supported. Quote Link to comment
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