Now ready for OS drive choice; M2 - - overkill?

Zitat von tkaiser

. . . But I would assume your project is more about 'building a PC' than 'NAS'?

ABSOLUTELY NOT!

After re-reading my capitalized and exclamation point reply I figured I'd better edit my return post to tkaiser ---

I could not tell if tkaiser was nailing me or being facetious. So as to not have anyone think I was snapping back, I want to clarify. Yes, I am building a NAS albeit it nothing as complex and all encompassing as many of those on the forum. I just want mine to do a few things to accommodate my simplistic needs. That said, when entering arena's like this NAS I always think [what if] scenario's. My [what if] at this point in time is this . . . What if one of my PC's went down. I would turn this NAS into a PC and revert temporarily back to the virtual OMV4 NAS currently in place until I built another small scale NAS.

Tonight my wife and I went out to supper. Upon returning I thought and thought about the used SSD's. Then the mail revealed the arrival of the 16GB SSD's of which I didn't open up the package. Then I read tkaiser's reply. Then I went onto Best Buy's website. Then I went to Ebay and did a return. Then back to BestBuy and bought 2 each PNY 120BG SSD's on sale for $22.99 each. Then I smiled and sighed with relief at my decision. Then I decided to write this edit. Then I decided that I have wrote the word "then" enough times. Now I can go to bed and chill for the night.

Zitat von flmaxey

I've been using 16 to 32GB USB thumb drives and SD-cards for years. I've had no problems, as long as the the Flash memory plugin is installed and the item is not a cheap generic.

My personal preference is to have the boot drive accessible from the outside of the case, which makes cloning (for OS backup) easy.
(Some use small SSD's, with a USB to sata or M2 adapter, for this purpose.)

Not yet fully understanding OMV4 I still have one remaining question about USB thumb drives. Are USB thumb drives adequate to hold the OS for situations when labor intensive tasks are called upon by the OS?

I have 3.0 slots available on the MoBo but the concern I'm wondering about is the MB read write specs versus the mb specs of a 3.0 SanDisk thumb drive, which is less than a 120GB SSD currently being used for the OS. If Plex (as an example) is installed on the server can a SanDisk 3.0 USB thumb drive handle the demand? ((Still haven't decided if I ever will install Plex; therefore just using it as an example)). RAM is 2@8GB DDR4 2400.

Thanks.