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I've done this in the past and it's always been very usable, although you need to be aware of the limitations. Any time you read and/or write to the USB you ge
by CarolineW 10y ago
I've done this in the past and it's always been very usable, although you need to be aware of the limitations. Any time you read and/or write to the USB you get hammered on speed, so you need to make sure everything you need is loaded into and running from memory. I know some Linux live installations do this by default - you need to check.
The only other thing is to make sure you save your work!
- milankragujevic 10y agoThank you for your response! Yeah, I have a 32 GB USB drive that writes at 25-30MBps and reads at 60MBps, though I don't know the random 4K times. Additionally, I always religiously save my work and clear write cache because my village looses power often so I have to save the data often in case it happens.
- CarolineW 10y agoI've run by booting from a 2GB Ubuntu Live Distro, and then used a 32GB drive for data. I then copied the USB data to the machine, and regularly ran rsync in the background to keep the RAM and USB in sync. I'm sure there are better solutions, but any shortcomings were minimal, and it was easy to set up, easy to use, and reliable.