prad put forth on 4/21/2011 2:14 PM: > Stan Hoeppner <s...@hardwarefreak.com> writes: > >> prad put forth on 4/20/2011 11:43 PM: >> >>> we want to run our servers through virtual box off usb drives which is a >>> total departure from what we've done over the years. so might as well >>> throw in a new fs too. :D >> >> Why USB? >> > since our volume is pretty small we only require around 10G. > the idea is to keep bkps on usb drives, so that if one fails, it's just > a simple plug-in to get things going again. we were thinking that we > avoid any possibility of hd failure/replacement this way and likely > reduce power requirements too. > > i've read that usb3 has faster write access than hd (though usb2 > apparently didn't). read access though is apparently just as good with > usb2. > > we haven't evaluated the idea fully yet though and are just > contemplating the possibility as a sort of poorman's solid state drives.
I'd steer clear of USB disk storage for a server environment. I've seen too many reports of USB links resetting spuriously for no apparent reason. If you have your root filesystem and swap on such a device and this happens, you're in trouble. -- Stan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4db09661.1010...@hardwarefreak.com
