So I have been looking into trying a new project involving Ceph. The other day I was thinking about my old trusty flash drive and it occurred to me that flash drives are cheap and theoretically fairly reliable.
Here’s what I am thinking. I will get a 5 pack of nicer 256gb flash drives and then I will setup the Ceph cluster as a backup targetfor a few months to see what happens. I think the biggest issue with this setup would be that some USB drives have cheap controllers that will just silently fail. I’ll post about how this goes.