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Run Linux from USB and use storage only for... storage: yay or nay (and why)?
(piefed.blahaj.zone)
Update: thank you ALL for all your input! 💐 After some back and forth with @thorry@feddit.org , I decided to simply swap between the two capture cards whenever I need to, in order to make room for my old 3080 and call it a day. This way, I won't have to spend any more money on this project and I retain the processing power of the 3080 when I start encoding my raw captures.
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?
No.
The person who said it’ll be too slow and you’ll ruin your usb is right but also:
Your system supports a nvme and sata. Dumping raw to nvme then working with it there so it doesn’t take so long to page into ram will be significantly faster.
Use spinning drives for storage though.
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 🤣
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.
Holy crap that is/looks hilarious 🤣 And also thank you 🥰 now I won't have four SATA ports doing nothing. 💪
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.
Thanks! Another two sticks of 8GB x 2 are on their way 🤣
Yes yes I have matched their latencies and speeds 😜
What case? I can’t tell myself because you blurred out the info…
You may end up needing to use attached storage either in the form of a nas or some kind of usb bullshit.
E: asusprime ap201?