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> This USB header is only USB 2.0 though so it's not an option for this purpose.

Not questioning a great project, but just curiosity about this small aside: why is USB 2.0 not suitable for the OS?

On a NAS, is it doing anything other than boot-time reading, and maybe occasionally writing a little data?



I run a NAS on a USB 2.0 boot disk, and the only issue I have with it is that systemd-journald really isn't built with slow disks in mind. Doing a journalctl operation with 6 months of log files takes a good minute or two because of journalctl's non-optimal file access patterns.


Not mentioned in the post but I also run some light server workloads on this machine and things were annoyingly slow with a USB 2.0 thumb drive.

I'm not gonna pretend that the real reason for making this wasn't because I have fun tinkering though.


It's a great project, and your solution is also technically superior to running off USB 2.0 thumb drives.


+1, I was wondering the same thing. Genuinely curious.




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