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Question, anyone knows a proven industrial grade usb-stick ~16G for server 24/7 usage?

Look for "SLC USB flash" on eBay. Definitely confirm the part specs with the OEM, and maybe test one to confirm longevity.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/201270936497?hash=item2edcaec3b1:g:...

Hey thanks for the tip, i knew about SLC's but i meant something that is really proven, but also small so you can putt it into pizza-form-factor servers.

Something like that:

https://www.atpinc.com/de/products/industrial-ssds-usb-drive

But available and more then 2GB ;)

EDIT: Nice i found something

https://www.swissbit.com/de/produkte/produktsuche/produkte/

I see this listing for Oracle/Sun SLC media.

When you say "really proven," do you mean a lifetime of 100k writes, as is normally expected of SLC devices?

p.s. I've bought SwissBit before, and had no problems.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/165027448860?hash=item266c67081c:g:...

>When you say "really proven,"

I mean something like:

We used them for every esxi servers since ~5 years and never had a problem with it.

I just have a really hard time trusting any usb-stick.

But thanks the Oracle hint/link is a good one.

Note that the Oracle flash drives are used, and likely won't have the full 100k remaining lifetime.

"This item was removed from a working machine."

I was not going to comment but then you clarified what you were looking for and I can say “we’ve used Sandisk Extreme Pro USB 3.0 in 32GB - 128GB in every ESXi server for probably over 5 years without any failures.”

I’ve heard they released a bad SKU that they then retracted - I think it may have been the first 3.1 variant, but it’s no longer for sale. The only problem is they are bulky, but I believe there is good reason for that.

Does that help?

>Does that help?

Yesyes..thanks for the tip, will check them out...or like 10 of them.

Useful keyword is DWPD(drive writes per day) but I don’t think there are USB sticks rated that way.

>Definitely confirm the part specs with the OEM

>https://www.ebay.com/itm/201270936497?hash=item2edcaec3b1:g:...

That's especially true for the listing you linked. ;)

According to one source[1] the drive is actually MLC, not SLC.

[1] https://www.tweaktown.com/reviews/5549/lexar-jumpdrive-p10-6...

I would use a decent SSD in a USB to SATA enclosure as a boot drive in a server were I can't fit an additional internal drive.

No place in a pizzabox for that.

There should be room to velcro an M2 enclosure to the front of even a 1U box