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[Nix]

On 13 Sep 2008, Richard Jones outgrape:

> On Sat, Sep 13, 2008 at 04:11:26PM +0100, Nix wrote:
>> I'd be fascinated to hear if the performance and reliability are
>> acceptable. From my experiences of USB mass storage I'd be reluctant to
>> trust it with /var/tmp let alone anything significant: my impressions
>> are of high interrupt and CPU load, frequent undiagnosed corruption
>> (mostly single-bit flips) when going at USB2 speed (which is a must for
>> any sensible storage volumes, of course), and (with some external
>> drives) undiagnosed and apparently *unfixable* filesystem corruption,
>> possibly due to bugs in the FTL or other parts of the layer between the
>> usb mass-storage fake-SCSI layer and the filesystem.
>
> Is this with USB hard drives or solid-state memory?  I've not had any
> problems with USB hard drives -- maybe I'm just lucky.  Flash keys on
> the other hand are a constant problem, although I suspect that's just
> down to a mixture of poor treatment and very cheap parts.

Both, but the drives in particular were dirt cheap (and one was
reconditioned, even). This may have been to blame, but I expect the
high interrupt load and CPU load to persist.

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