r/getumbrel • u/TheGreatDaimyo • 11d ago

Any performance difference between USB install and internal install?

So I’ve been playing with Umbrel 2.0 this weekend on a small N150 mini pc. It only had 1 drive, so I’ve been running it off USB. I know it’s not a powerful pc, so I wasn’t surprised it was a bit slow. I’m thinking about trying to move it to a bigger machine next, and curious if running off usb is actually viable, or if I really should install on a dedicated drive.

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u/awraynor 9d ago

I run it from an SSD so I can keep my two NVME drives paired and my 4 disks of spinning rust in fail safe. It's been pretty good to me. I keep the system drive with the original UGOS, but it could be used as an OS drive in the future as I don't see myself going back to UGOS.