[geeks] Running a computer from a USB flash drive

[Shannon Hendrix]

On Apr 18, 2008, at 02:42 , Jonathan Groll wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 11:51:16PM -0400, Shannon Hendrix wrote:
>> Are there any USB flash drives out there designed for "server use",  
>> or
>> at least better than the Joe Consumer stuff you see in Best Buy?  An
>> "industrial" USB flash drive maybe?
>
> Is it really necessary to worry about industrial grade flash if all it
> will be used for is /boot? This is certainly possible on a linux
> machine, I'm not really sure about solaris.

Sure, if that's all it is used for.

But if I run the OS on it, then I want to make sure it won't go away  
on me.

I've seen plenty of USB flash drives that sometimes just "go away" and  
have to be replugged.

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