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Relatime vs noatime for flash drives

I am running a web server off of a SheevaPlug, and the OS and system are stored on an SD card with an ext3 file system. I know that atime is a major source of writes that wear out flash memory. This question recommends using the relatime mount…
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RAID of SATA SSDs or PCIe Flash?

As a reference: Crucial RealSSD C300 256GB drives. MySQL 5.1.5x running InnoDB tables. Linux (CentOS 5.5 etx3 journaled). Questions: Is it better to use a RAID of these so that drives can be swapped in and out or get a FusionIO or RevoDrive…
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Looking for a good way to keep a log file on a flash drive

Not sure this is the right place for this question but here goes... I have some application that writes a log file. Now I have to run it on a system which has only flash storage: embedded MMC and micro SD. And this machine has high probability of…
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Server throwing error on drive: status: { DRDY ERR }, error: { ABRT }, failed command: READ DMA EXT

I have a server from Red Barn that has been throwing errors accessing its local SATA flash drive. Here are some facts: I'm running Ubuntu 15.10, although two other similar Supermicro servers are as well, with no trouble. The root drive is a SATA…
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Has anyone managed to install fresh OS from flash drive?

I am considering to avoid purchase new machines with optical drives. The only caveat is the OS installation which can be messy - to open the case and temporarily hook up DVD which often does not worth the trouble comparing to the price of a…
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Is there a mapping of USB Flash Drives to Fat32 / NTFS / Ex-Fat?

I am helping with documentation for a hardware product that is compatible with Fat32 Formatted USB sticks. Instead of saying "Fat32" and confusing users who may not be tech-savvy, we'd like to provide a list of compatible drives and brands. Rather…
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Linux: USB device power management

I have a USB Hard Drive In Windows, i used to click the "Safely remove" icon, and the hdd stopped spinning and was unmounted. Now, in Linux, unmounting doesn't poweroff the device, and it proceeds spinning when i remove it's cable. Is there a way to…
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