I see that there is a requirement for the USB flash Drive to range between 512MB - 32GB.  Before I purchase the flash drive, would there be any benefit to getting a larger one?  I mean, should there be an expectation for more data to be added to the drive? 

 

I would like to make an informed purchasing decision. 

 

Thanks in Advance

The real minimum now is 2G, (and that'll be tight)   4G+ you'll be fine.  Don't go over 32Gig though as that'll introduce some further complications.

 

And there's no real benefit to having a larger drive.  Faster (ie: USB3 vs USB2) doesn't bring any real benefits either

2 minutes ago, Squid said:

The real minimum now is 2G, (and that'll be tight)   4G+ you'll be fine.  Don't go over 32Gig though as that'll introduce some further complications.

 

And there's no real benefit to having a larger drive.  Faster (ie: USB3 vs USB2) doesn't bring any real benefits either

Thank You :-)

My server is using 348MB on the USB, and that's been in use for several years.  2GB is plenty.

tldr: you can use a device larger than 32GB if you use our USB Creator tool.

 

The reason we set the upper limit to 32GB is that devices larger than that require a larger FAT32 "blocksize", and if you are formatting under Windows, it will not offer FAT32 as a formatting option, instead will offer exFat.  The problem with exFat is that it's patent-encumbered and not clear we can use it (but of course you can), but also I don't think syslinux supports exFat.  There are a few ways around this:

• You could use our USB Creator tool, which detects if device is larger than 32GB and creates a FAT32 file system with larger blocksize.
• You can use a 3rd party formatting tool that will let you format FAT32 with larger blocksize.
• You could create a smaller FAT32 partition and then create a second partition with whatever filesystem you want.  But then you need to setup the flash and run syslinux manually to make it bootable.