[OpenIndiana-discuss] Installing OI on USB stick

[Timothy Coalson]

On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 8:06 PM, Jim Klimov <jimklimov at cos.ru> wrote:

> On 2013-03-01 02:40, Peter Wood wrote:
>>
>> Any reason not to install OI on USB sticks? Anything I should be careful
>> about?
>>
>
> We did have a box with USB sticks in it "forever", written rather
> intensively. Every few months they wore out and died.


Ouch.  I don't suppose you could use external 2.5" usb disks instead, for
better longevity?

What I did to not use a main drive bay for rpool (in a 4U chassis, mind
you) was use two PCI expansion slots for 2.5" SATA hot swap bays.

Tim