u/jabbadood

Hey, I just had a case of my usb drive failing, it's been 3 years or so with it continuously on (Sandisk ultra fit) and have successfully replaced with a samsung bar. I just encountered another issue, where one of my docker was filling up the filesystem log. I think one of the icons was not working so it filled up the log with errors. So no big deal, I fix the docker icon and safely restart. But once restarted it was saying something like the usb failed to mount. Strange, so I unplugged the usb and tried different ports, checked for corruption. Nothing worked.

Then I found that syslinux.cfg had a tilde ~ at the end so I removed that and unraid booted back up. Is unraid just that unreliable or is it booting from usb? Was it because the log was 100% filled that it couldn't modify any existing files on the usb? I'm fortunate that I've been near my server to fix it, but what if I'm away?

Should I move to internal boot? Is it more reliable?

I have some canon cr2 and sony arw raw files that do not load and does not generate thumbnails. I can download the files and can view it on my computer so the files are not corrupted in any way. Is there a way to make these work? I do have some arw files previously that works, but since updating and uploading I can't get them to work the same way.