Freenas ..Worst and best usb drives for freenas?

[Magnus33]

As said many times don't cheap out it bites you on the butt every time.

Kingston usb do work fine but tend to burn out quite quickly.

SanDisk seems ok but i had the odd one not work with freenas at all

Corsair i had the best luck with so far.

Whats your experience?

 

[gpsguy]

Given how SSD prices have plummeted use an inexpensive SSD instead.

Or, do the FreeNAS install on a pair of mirrored flash drives.

I've been lucky with my Patriot flash drives. I'm a fan of Sandisk. I've got a couple of Extreme Pro SSD and I use their SD cards in my camera.

 

[Magnus33]

I always mirror my usb drives and backup everything (paranoid is good )

Usb though seem like they shall be useless soon with zfs and the newer freenas 10 coming.
Just too many writes for them to stand up to the abuse and though a small sdd is cheap now its just huge overkill even at the smallest.

So its usb's for now.

 

[Ericloewe]

I've had luck with many, varied SanDisks and the odd Toshiba.

Just the other day, I easily installed FreeNAS 9.10 from a USB 2.0 SanDisk (one of the small ones, but not the really tiny cruzer fits) onto a USB 3.0 Cruzer Extreme (?). They've also been generally reliable, though I haven't subjected them to the same workload as the USB 2.0 Toshibas in my old server.