USB sticks dying
Posted: Fri Apr 15, 2016 7:23 pm
Hi guys,
I have 3 Pi's in my home running the Domoticz home automation system. When setting this system up a few years ago, SD cards would get corrupted very fast so I followed the tutorial "HOWTO: Move the filesystem to a USB stick/Drive". With the filesystems running from the USB sticks, I didn't had any problems for the next +/- 2 years. After that time the sticks would get some bad sectors, which is understandable.
So all old USB sticks (Kingston DataTraveler SE9 USB2.0 8GB) got replaced by new ones (Kingston DataTraveler SE9 USB3.0 8GB). The last 3 months I had already 4 USB sticks dying after a short time in use, the NAND chip dies.
I'm wondering if any of you know if this is due to it being USB3.0 sticks, or do you suspect a bad batch of sticks?
Which kind of stick would you suggest?
Kind regards,
David
I have 3 Pi's in my home running the Domoticz home automation system. When setting this system up a few years ago, SD cards would get corrupted very fast so I followed the tutorial "HOWTO: Move the filesystem to a USB stick/Drive". With the filesystems running from the USB sticks, I didn't had any problems for the next +/- 2 years. After that time the sticks would get some bad sectors, which is understandable.
So all old USB sticks (Kingston DataTraveler SE9 USB2.0 8GB) got replaced by new ones (Kingston DataTraveler SE9 USB3.0 8GB). The last 3 months I had already 4 USB sticks dying after a short time in use, the NAND chip dies.
I'm wondering if any of you know if this is due to it being USB3.0 sticks, or do you suspect a bad batch of sticks?
Which kind of stick would you suggest?
Kind regards,
David