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When Sun Microsystems was still existing they made a (quite funny) video putting 12 usb sticks in a ZFS pool with RAID: https://constantin.glez.de/2011/01/24/ho
by __lm__ 3y ago
When Sun Microsystems was still existing they made a (quite funny) video putting 12 usb sticks in a ZFS pool with RAID: https://constantin.glez.de/2011/01/24/how-save-world-zfs-and-12-usb-sticks-4th-anniversary-video-re-release-edition/ https://constantin.glez.de/2011/01/24/how-save-world-zfs-and...
- somat 3y agoI wanted to boot my home truenas box off usb flash, but I also know how flakey usb flash can be, so I use a pair of drives in a zfs mirror. I would not recommend this setup, Any real drive would be better. I just hated wasting drive bays for the non-critical boot/system partition. In my defense despite burning through many cheap usb drives I have not lost the boot yet, however I do keep a new spare drive taped to the unit.
- hdjdkdbdbe 3y agoI have the same setup for my router ... Openbsd 16-32gb if one dies I create a new one and set it up with ansible....
- cylinder714 3y agoFrom 2009, what I think was a famous video on which some kids in the UK put together a 6-gigabyte RAID with 24 256-gigabyte Samsung drives: https://youtu.be/26enkCzkJHQ https://youtu.be/26enkCzkJHQ
- phil21 3y agoI had grand plans to make a giant USB ZFS volume from tradeshow thumb drives in bulk. It lasted a couple evenings while I bumped into apparently every Linux USB driver/chipset issue possible trying to drive a couple hundred drives via cheapo AliExpress USB hubs. It was fun times, but even more useless than I originally thought it would be. It was amusing to get >1GBps for a minute or two across 256 crappy thumb drives though!