Recommandations for ZimaOS running from a USB Drive

Operating System ZimaOS
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Hi IceWhalers.

I just installed ZimaOs 1.5 on a CCWQ mini nas device. Since this device is designed to allow four NVME drive, i decided to run zimaos from an external usb drive and keep all (4) NVMEs for data.

So far so good everything is running smoothly but before committing to this setup i would like to know :
1- Is this a supported setup, maybe not the best idea…
2- Will this gives me problems down the lines when os updates will have to be applied (no enought temp space…).

So this lead me to one last question:

What is the minimal recommended size for the ZimaOS Drive ?

Thanks for yre advices.

David

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I was nearly in the same scenario. Booting ZimaOS from USB works good, but it is not bug-free. I had to use USB because of a little HW-limitation, but found a nice workaround and switched to booting from internal drive. Even if it ran very ok-ish, every system is different.

I upgraded from 1.4 to 1.5 without a problem.

Because of the usb bottleneck I recommend to not use USB as the OS drive.

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