I've been running an Edgerouter since 2017on a USB external sata drive enclosure, works great.
Diana On July 17, 2025 3:59:30 AM MDT, Christoph Liebender <christ...@liebender.dev> wrote: >Am 17.07.25 um 11:42 schrieb Stefan Sperling: >> You do not have to use the internal emmc on these devices at all costs. > >Not sure if I want to boot over USB all the time on a production system... >does the emmc wear out too quickly? Or is your argument only about disk space? > >I assume that in the worst case scenario one is able to re-flash the original >Ubiquiti OS onto emmc anyway? > >> A good quality USB-3 storage device should work just fine. > >Hrm, considering that I'd want a "permanently attached USB drive" to be >somewhat small, these "micro USB drives" [1, 2] are quite tempting, though the >last one was busy overheating and throttling its throughput. As I see it, most >USB sticks nowadays are marketed with water- and x-ray-resistance [2] instead >of flash endurance anyway. > >[1] https://amzn.eu/d/hQXfSoj >[2] https://amzn.eu/d/d08NpJD >
