October 4, 20169 yr Due to an unexpected failure over the weekend, I have had to think about redundancy once again and one are I just thought of is the booting thumb drive. Has anyone had experience with cloning the drive? Should I get another license and thumb drive and set it to sync automatically or is one sync good forever? Or is it good until the next drive is swapped? Perhaps there is no need to worry about this, but I was thinking that we've had this thumb drive for about 5 years now. It might be worth backing it up and replacing it. Am I correct that the thumb drive is getting written to fairly frequently? Any thoughts or suggestions are greatly appreciated!
October 4, 20169 yr Community Expert Due to an unexpected failure over the weekend, I have had to think about redundancy once again and one are I just thought of is the booting thumb drive. Has anyone had experience with cloning the drive? Should I get another license and thumb drive and set it to sync automatically or is one sync good forever? Or is it good until the next drive is swapped? Perhaps there is no need to worry about this, but I was thinking that we've had this thumb drive for about 5 years now. It might be worth backing it up and replacing it. Am I correct that the thumb drive is getting written to fairly frequently? Any thoughts or suggestions are greatly appreciated! This has been discussed many times. See search tips in my sig. Community Applications plugin has a flash backup feature.
October 4, 20169 yr Community Expert No it is not true the flash gets frequent writes. Changes you make in the webUI are written there, and it is read on boot or when starting the array. That is about all that it gets used. The unRAID OS runs completely in RAM. It is unpacked fresh into RAM from bzroot on the flash each time it boots. All of the usual linux OS folders are actually in RAM so the flash drive is used very little.
October 4, 20169 yr Community Expert My 2 oldest servers are still on the original 1GB flash drives, both almost 9 years old.
October 4, 20169 yr Wonder what USB years are compared to human years... Probably depends on the type of stick... vs
October 5, 20169 yr With the latest 6.2.1 update I remembered this topic from yesterday... With more frequent updates we will get more writes and less life expectancy Of course, I prefer the more frequent updates than then €5 for a usb stick every >5 years
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