On 11/8/2013 12:57 PM, Lists wrote: > Saw a trick today, wondering if anybody else had done/tried this? Assume > you have a 1U rackmount with 4 front-accessed drive bays, and you want > all four bays for a 4-disk RAID5 storage. > > The idea is to use an internal USB adapter and a couple of bigger USB > thumb drives to install to, RAID 1 style, freeing up all your external > drive bays. At first, I didn't think that a thumb drive would hold > enough for the O/S, but in actual production use for a file server with > 14 TB of redundant storage, the OS actually uses less than 6 GB! USB thumb drives are really not that suitable for anything doing random writes, lots of small files, etc. -- john r pierce 37N 122W somewhere on the middle of the left coast