akunohana comments on Run Linux from USB and use storage only for... storage: yay or nay (and why)?

Run Linux from USB and use storage only for... storage: yay or nay (and why)? (piefed.blahaj.zone)

submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by akunohana@piefed.blahaj.zone to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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I am just about to set up my new Linux machine, which will be used to convert analog video and audio to digital video and audio. Is there any reason why I shouldn't run the system off of a live USB stick (say, a good quality one from Sandisk), that is, without installing Linux on the hard drive and not setting up a boot partition, a system partition, and all that?

[–] akunohana@piefed.blahaj.zone [S] 1 point 3 days ago (5 children)

I'm still looking for a place to put the spinning drive though 😅 this micro-ATX chassi, while really practical in many other aspects, doesn't leave much room for HDDs. 🫠 I could just leave one "standing" on the bottom of the chassi if I don't have to secure it with screws 🤣

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[–] TrollAccount69@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 days ago (3 children)

You do have an asus prime case. The smallest is the 201.

Here is the manual showing where to mount three 3.5” drives:

https://www.manualslib.com/manual/2851351/Asus-Prime-Ap201.html?page=19#manual

You bolt them to the bottom.

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[–] akunohana@piefed.blahaj.zone [S] 1 point 3 days ago (2 children)

Holy crap that is/looks hilarious 🤣 And also thank you 🥰 now I won't have four SATA ports doing nothing. 💪

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[–] TrollAccount69@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 days ago (1 child)

Yeah!

So work on dumping and encoding your raws on the internal nvme SSD and then save the finished stuff and project folders you’re not using on the magnetic drives.

That’ll give you the fastest paging. That’s a ddr4 board right? The old wisdom used to be that you’d get faster performance with only two sticks of ram but that’s from back when two 32gb sticks was the same price as four 16gb sticks. Don’t shy away from using all four slots.

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