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    Experience with Transcend SATA Flash drives?

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      Imalamuya last edited by

      I'm looking at building a pfSense system using HD or Embedded. Does anyone have any experience with the Transcend 2GB-4GB SATA free-standing (hanging?  ;)) modules? How's the reliability of these overall?

      Thanks in advance!

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        mlanner last edited by

        I've been using Transcend DOMs (4GB) and they generally work nicely. I don't know that I've used one with pfSense, but I'd be surprised if it doesn't work.

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          wallabybob last edited by

          I've been using a Transcend 1GB DOM that plugs into IDE socket on motherboard as my system disk for over a year now and have had no trouble with it. I use the full pfSense not embedded. I don't have any experience with the SATA modules.

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            fry42 last edited by

            Hi,

            I've used two of the Transcend 2GB Sata Modules in my experimental boxes.

            Installation takes very long - I suspect this is due to some general SSD issues with writing a large number of files.
            And i did get the following error message:
            FAILURE - SETFEATURES SET TRANSFER MODE status=51 <ready,dsc,error>error=4 <aborted>Seems to be something with the DMA Mode…

            Other than that it seems to run fine. One of my boxes has an uptime of >6 months - without any errors/troubles/...
            Btw. it's a full install, not embedded.

            And the usual disclaimer: Don't use flash-drives with a full installation because they will break at some point.
            For the risks involved search this forum :)

            Bye,
            S.</aborted></ready,dsc,error>

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