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I'm designing a file server based around ZFS and I'm considering using USB flash drives in RAID 1 as boot devices. It seems that few people do this, and I'm wondering why. From what I see, using USB flash drives have some benefits:
Cheaper than hard drives...
Started by Craig Younkins on
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I agree....
My to begin with.
The SD cards in dedicated readers have some distinct advantages, I think, to USB flash drives.
The readers are just attached to an internal USB).
SD memory cards in lieu of USB "flash drives".
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What is the best way to discover what USB drives are connected, where they are mounted, and their unique details like Serial number, PID and which USB Hub port they are connected to? Something similar to what USBlyzer does for Windows but programmatically...
Started by Abdullah Jibaly on
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In a shell or another executing module.
And follow the devices===> USB tree to find your answers.
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Hi,
I'm new to virtual box and just Installed it in my window 7. I Installed Windows XP on my virtual box and I don't know how to import some of my stuff from my windows 7. My Portable Drives can't be seen in my XP but can be seen in my windows 7.
How...
Started by Pennf0lio on
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I have never been able to make the USB featuresEdited based ....
Copy the files from your USB drive to the shared folder in Windows 7 the USB drive shared but I do not recommend this.
Shared Folders for your XP install.
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Almost all external USB hard drive and USB memory media/sticks come today preformatted with FAT32 .
As far as I know the only advantage of the file system is the compatibility among OSes and devices.
Is it reasonable to reformat it with exFAT or even ...
Started by Toro on
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Conclusion from the testing:
"For Copying....
But, at least at windows XP, you must be more careful and always unmount disk, because usb drive can extensive testing on usb drives comparing performance of FAT32, NTFS, and exFAT.
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I have scripts that expect specific drive letters for hard drives. Windows sometimes assigns the different drive letters [e.g. I expected my Maxtor drive to be E but it's now F, therefore my scripts will fail], depending on the order of how the drives...
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It automatically solves conflicts between USB drives and network or subst drivesThe USB....
Running as service makes it independent drive letters.
Control over Window's drive letter assignment for USB drives.
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Are there any bootloaders designed for usb drives that make it easy to boot multiple distributions and utilities.
I've installed sysrescuecd, supergrub, ultimate boot cd and other various linux distros on my usb drive. The lame thing is all their installation...
Started by Richard on
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Diskpart
list a link, sorry) to create your....
Windows Vista and 7 contain all the utilities you need to create a bootable USB drive.
I've used Grub4Dos to make a working multiboot USB drive customizable with many different.
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We need a way to prevent users from copying anything to and from USB drives unless they are a system administrator. What can be done to remove this access for security purposes.
Started by Jeremy E on
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at serverfault):
If you want to allow a subset of USB storage works great
A quick and dirty fix will....
This could be configured in a GPO and applied to a limited set of machines .
In Windows, you can disable the USB Storage driver by setting a registry key.
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I have 2 external USB harddrives that are on/active during the boot process. I believe that Windows7 is looking at those drives while booting, which is causes bootup to take longer. Is there a way that I can disable these drives until after the OS has...
Started by Jordan S. Jones on
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We do that by restricting access to USBSTOR.INF and USBSTORE.PNF in a GPO, we need to make sure that... .
And yes is allowed to use USB storage.
This includes hard drives, flash drives, and any other type of USB storage device.
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I'm using a Windows XP desktop to test the I/O for a 4GB USB flash drive. I would like to use Performance Monitor to capture the statistics of the test, but neither the Physical Disk or the Logical Disk objects show the USB flash drive as a viable instance...
Started by KevinH on
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at serverfault):
It allows you to run tests on drives to see.
Use a utility such as HDtune from www.hdtune.com.
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I would like to pick up some really fast USB flash drives in the 16 - 64 GB range. When looking at drives they just list their size, their form factor (key chain hook, slider, etc.) and the fact that they are all Hi-Speed USB 2.0. It seems like I have...
Started by Jim McKeeth on
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The minimum specs for a readyboost enabled ....
The readyboost feature of Vista requires high speed, so if the drive has that then if should be fast.
I have found that the guaranteed mark of speed are drives that claim "readyboost enabled".
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