On Tue, May 02, 2017 at 08:02:32AM -0500, Martin McCormick wrote: > If one buys an IDE to USB converter for an older chassis > that currently can only boot from the IDE interface, will a > bootable usb thumb drive work with such a setup? > > I actually have been using an IDE-SATA converter on these > systems but 2 of 4 SATA drives have completely died after 7 or 8 > years of service and thumb drives are cheaper and can be > written to and read from on anything from a raspberry Pi to a > P.C. > > The SATA drives that died simply don't even act like they are > plugged in. Oh, they get slightly warm but they don't show up as > a device.
Your SATA disks lasted 7-8 years? That's a reasonable lifetime for spinning disks. Replace them with more SATA disks, either spinning or SSD. I would expect a USB thumb drive to last considerably less than a single year in a situation where they are written to at significant rates. -dsr-
