Hey folks,

Looks like my Hub keeps failing after a few hours - I'm on a hunch its the USB storage, so I've replaced it with a USB caddy holding an SSD drive.

I'm keeping an eye on it, so if it fails I should see fairly quickly - but if you dont see it back up after a few hours (I'm GMT+11, so sleeping excluded ;) send me an email...

Sorry for the hastles - just when I was starting to ignore it because it was running soooo well, it started failing. :(

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On 30 Nov 2020 at 09:59a, deon pondered and said...

Looks like my Hub keeps failing after a few hours - I'm on a hunch its
the USB storage, so I've replaced it with a USB caddy holding an SSD drive.

I'm keeping an eye on it, so if it fails I should see fairly quickly -
but if you dont see it back up after a few hours (I'm GMT+11, so
sleeping excluded ;) send me an email...

Thank you for keeping an eye on things, bummer about the hardware stuff. I
hate it when that happens to me too..

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deon wrote (2020-11-30):

Hey folks,

Looks like my Hub keeps failing after a few hours - I'm on a hunch its
the USB storage, so I've replaced it with a USB caddy holding an SSD
drive.

Sorry for the hastles - just when I was starting to ignore it because it was running soooo well, it started failing. :(

After over an TB of data writes (just an estimate), I'm still waiting for my SD

































































card to fail. I'm starting to trust the SD storage (until it fails ;)).

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Re: Hub 3 - more issues
By: Oli to deon on Mon Nov 30 2020 10:13 am

After over an TB of data writes (just an estimate), I'm still waiting for

my SD card to fail. I'm starting to trust the SD storage (until it fails ;)).

Yeah, I've had good luck with SD cards - none have failed yet, and I've had the
































































same one in my Pi 3+ when I first got the 3+ (when it was released).

Hub 3's failure was a new SAN disk USB stick - and its only a month old... :|

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deon wrote (2020-12-02):

Yeah, I've had good luck with SD cards - none have failed yet,

good to know. there are so many reports of failing sd cards after a couple of months.

Hub 3's failure was a new SAN disk USB stick - and its only a month
old... :|

I wouldn't use USB sticks. They usually don't support fstrim and wear out faster (at least in my experience). One month is a very short lifespan though, especially for SanDisk. (my SD card is from SanDisk)

I've replaced it with a USB caddy holding an SSD drive.

There is hope that it will last much longer. Do you know if your caddy supports































































fstrim?

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Re: Hub 3 - more issues
By: Oli to deon on Wed Dec 02 2020 10:51 am

There is hope that it will last much longer. Do you know if your caddy

supports fstrim?

I dont think so.

The PI is running ESXi and it doesnt recognise the disk as an SSD. So fstrim doesnt work in guest.... ;(

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