On 30/03/2018 10:42, A. Dumas wrote:
> On 30/03/2018 10:49, Newdo wrote:
>> i am thinking about installing raspbian on an ext3 formatted USB stick
>> on order to get rid of the file system journaling accessing the device
>> too often..
>
> Well, a USB stick is the same sort of flash media as an SD card, so you
> won't solve that problem. I use a spinning disk for my server Pi, it's a
> 2.5" portable disk powered by the USB port, max_usb_current=1 in
> /boot/config.txt. Works well, haven't had an outage in years.

Some USB sticks, particularly the tiny low profile ones, may be pretty
much the same as an SD card when used as a Pi filing system. Some of the
larger sticks *may* have better controllers for improved wear levelling
and resilience when used as a Pi filing system.

I've been using a Samsung USB3 bar drive on one of my Pi's for over 3
years without a problem, where as the maximum an SD card has lasted is
18 months. My main Pi is using a proper SSD with a USB to SATA adaptor.

---druck

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