jdd, et al -- ...and then jdd@dodin.org said... % % Le 06/03/2020 à 03:51, David T-G a écrit : % > % >I like that idea, but the price is out of my range. I can buy three 32G % >thumb drives for $20-$30 and have redundancy, a life expectancy of well % >over a year, and more than enough space for the base install versus, % >what, a minimum of $80 for a single SSD? The SSD just isn't worth it for % >my application. % % 60Go 24??? % % https://www.amazon.fr/Transcend-TS64GMSA230S-interne-mSATA-SATA/dp/B07GMF7GX... ... % https://www.amazon.fr/Adaptateur-SuperSpeed-Aluminium-KingSpec-Transcend/dp/... Merci, but the card alone is $23 plus shipping, and a similar box (I for some reason couldn't find this one on my amazon.com side) would cost something more. Conversely, I can grab a basic thumb drive https://www.walmart.com/ip/SanDisk-CZ60-32GB-USB-Flash-Drive-2-0-Black-Red/2... right now. Why settle for USB 2 on a thumb drive? Because it's cheap and simple and disposable and because I can; I don't need significant speed for the OS, and it doesn't swap. % % and you can probably have some cheaper, I didn't really search. the % main advantage is that you can treat them (usb3) exactly as internal % disk and so install exactly what you want. A live disk is not as % simple to manage There is that, and that's an honest consideration. Now that I have one running, I'm going to have to evaluate just how much 1) customization & updating and 2) ongoing work it will take. The nice think about the KNOPPIX version for diskfarm is that I just change out ISO images every year or so, reapply my few localizations, et voila. % % backup don't have to be made on same kind of hardware True, but it's a lot easier when you can just dd from the one with the orange tail to the one with the green tail and put the green one back in the drawer :-) % % jdd Merci again :-) :-D -- David T-G See http://justpickone.org/davidtg/email/ See http://justpickone.org/davidtg/tofu.txt -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-support+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-support+owner@opensuse.org