On 11/8/2013 11:01 PM, Arun Khan wrote: > Some of the newer workstation/server boards have an internal USB > (female) connector soldered on to the board; specifically meant for > embedded OS. I have seen it on the Supermicro and Dell systems. personally, I'd as soon use a CF or SD card for this, but ah well. my home HP Microserver, running FreeNAS, has a sandisk USB stick plugged into its internal USB jack on the main board. has been working great for a year. occassionally I backup the configuration file so if the stick dies, in theory I make a new one and slap the XML file on it and reboot. -- john r pierce 37N 122W somewhere on the middle of the left coast