ChiknNutz
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- Nov 6, 2015
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Not sure how this is possible, but both of my USB boot drives failed (boot screen shows "ERROR 13, UNRETRYABLE ERROR" for both of them). I regularly monitor the system and it did not show either were degraded. The system was working to some extent, as I could get to shares and such, but could not get the GUI to load. So I performed a reboot and now neither one will boot, have tried numerous times. I know the current recommendation is to use SATA SSD boot drives, but this is an older system (by today's standards) and USB boot drives were the thing then. My concern is being able to restore the system to prior state, since I now have to start with a fresh install. Looks like I have a backup config file from a few months ago, so I think I should be able to get it pretty close to how it was. Just really frustrated with it, these boot drives seem too fragile so I can see why the recommendation is to use something more robust. I think over the course of having this, I've replaced probably 4 to 6 of the USB drives, but only one at a time til now.