I just recently built my first FreeNAS box, haven't used it enough yet to have any likes or dislikes based on experience. However, I built it with a mirrored boot on 2 Dane Elec microSD drives in USB adapters that came with them. Built the system 3 days ago, spent a day and a half getting LACP working because I stupidly didn't have a VLAN on a trunk where it needed to be. All in all I have booted from these USB drives around 10 times. Moved the system into the rack yesterday and started copying from my old debian file server.
This morning had an alert, and one of the boot drives has crapped out. Glad I mirrored it. So I am looking for recommendations for reliable USB 2.0 thmb drives. Speed really is irrelevant, I hope to boot this thing a few times a year for important updates, so a 10 minute boot really doesn't bother me, I kind of expected that somewhere here I would find a flamewar involving USB drive brands and then a link to a cyberjock guide, but all I found from him was this:
https://forums.freenas.org/index.php?threads/booting-from-usb-stick-hangs.20579/#post-117979
https://forums.freenas.org/index.php?threads/booting-from-usb-stick-hangs.20579/#post-117979
where at the bottom of the thread he said:
I would kinda like to go with a couple different brand drives, just hoping that variety will help insulate me from near simultaneous death.
Did I miss something?
This morning had an alert, and one of the boot drives has crapped out. Glad I mirrored it. So I am looking for recommendations for reliable USB 2.0 thmb drives. Speed really is irrelevant, I hope to boot this thing a few times a year for important updates, so a 10 minute boot really doesn't bother me, I kind of expected that somewhere here I would find a flamewar involving USB drive brands and then a link to a cyberjock guide, but all I found from him was this:
https://forums.freenas.org/index.php?threads/booting-from-usb-stick-hangs.20579/#post-117979
https://forums.freenas.org/index.php?threads/booting-from-usb-stick-hangs.20579/#post-117979
where at the bottom of the thread he said:
I usually go for the cheapest drive that I trust. My "go-to" is a Corsair Voyager.
I would kinda like to go with a couple different brand drives, just hoping that variety will help insulate me from near simultaneous death.
Did I miss something?