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Re:Considerations for a long-running Raspberry Pi by Aerbil313 on Saturday February 17, 2024 @05:54AM (#39408331)
Would there be any reliability problems with using USB flash drives instead of USB SSDs?
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Re:Considerations for a long-running Raspberry Pi by Tor3 on Saturday February 17, 2024 @06:47AM (#39408598)
I don't really know. I assume they would be slower than SSDs though, but I have never measured USB flash. The SSBs get some 300MB/sec on my Pi 4 boards.
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Re:Considerations for a long-running Raspberry Pi by NortySpock on Saturday February 17, 2024 @03:05PM (#39412989)
Sample size of 1, but I ran an RPi4 just fine on a USB thumb drive for about a year.

Still upgraded to an SSD later because I wanted even more storage space (and SSD seemed to have better random IOPS than a thumb-drive), but I'd say go for it.

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