May need to replace system drive

@Noggin wrote:

I rebooted my server tonight and was greeted with this message while watching the boot process via IPMI:

blk_update_request: critical medium error, dev sdi, sector 17774192

“smartctl -a /dev/sdi -d scsi” yields:

smartctl 7.0 2018-12-30 r4883 [x86_64-linux-4.12.4-1.el7.elrepo.x86_64] (local build)
Copyright © 2002-18, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org

=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Vendor: SanDisk
Product: Ultra Fit
Revision: 1.00
Compliance: SPC-4
User Capacity: 62,109,253,632 bytes [62.1 GB]
Logical block size: 512 bytes
Serial number: 4C530001251226102193
Device type: disk
Local Time is: Sat Jan 18 18:34:58 2020 CST
SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is: Enabled
Temperature Warning: Disabled or Not Supported

=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART Health Status: OK
Current Drive Temperature: 0 C
Drive Trip Temperature: 0 C

Error Counter logging not supported

Device does not support Self Test logging

So, two questions:

1. Is there any reason I couldn’t just make an image of my system disk (64 GB, USB 3.0 flash drive), restore it to another drive, and boot from the new drive without any further configuration?
2. Is there a “best” flash drive to use? I can find really expensive stuff, but I’m not convinced it is significantly better than the $12 Samsung flash drive.

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