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by brianwski
5454 days ago
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I just asked, and found out we actually HAVE had a number of boot drives fail in our fleet of 200 pods. Most decisions in the pod are around saving money, so our initial thoughts were just that no customer data is on the boot drive so it isn't all that important. But don't get me wrong, there are SO MANY GOOD opportunities to improve the pod, Backblaze just stops working on the pod when it does what is needed for us and we run off to focus on other things. Your call on the boot drive is every bit as valid as ours. :-) I'm staring at an open pod here and I see plenty of good spots to put a second boot drive, and we'll probably be going to a 2.5" form factor (laptop) boot drive sometime soon which would yield even more space. |
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We've had good luck so far with using small USB flash drives for booting big file servers. We keep the drive image pretty generic and if there's a problem with one, we just replace it with a cloned USB flash drive and reboot, no problem.
It doesn't seem to hurt performance at all for these kinds of uses -- although we do set it up without swap to keep the life of the USB flash device reasonable, which might or might not work in your case.