Safe to leave USB in device all day?

[Kanna]

I have this 64gb PNY USB that I use for Xbox recordings and I'm usually leaving it in the xbox, but I'm unsure if that's good because it's always lit up and I had a USB act weird in the past after having it in the TV always after a while. So as title says, is it safe for the USB?

[NF-A12x25]

3 minutes ago, Kanna said:

I have this 64gb PNY USB that I use for Xbox recordings and I'm usually leaving it in the xbox, but I'm unsure if that's good because it's always lit up and I had a USB act weird in the past after having it in the TV always after a while. So as title says, is it safe for the USB?

USB flash drives degrade pretty fast either way so I would recommend getting a USB hard drive, they are quite cheap, however leaving it in all day won’t be that big of an issue. Just be careful if the recordings are something you want to keep, flash drives are a bad long-term storage media.

[podkall]

1 minute ago, NF-A12x25 said:

USB flash drives degrade pretty fast either way so I would recommend getting a USB hard drive, they are quite cheap, however leaving it in all day won’t be that big of an issue. Just be careful if the recordings are something you want to keep, flash drives are a bad long-term storage media.

That and it depends if the USB gets too hot while being in or not

[Dedayog]

8 minutes ago, Kanna said:

I have this 64gb PNY USB that I use for Xbox recordings and I'm usually leaving it in the xbox, but I'm unsure if that's good because it's always lit up and I had a USB act weird in the past after having it in the TV always after a while. So as title says, is it safe for the USB?

I have a USB in my PC 24/7, can't imagine the Xbox being any different.  I'd leave it.

[manikyath]

i've got an unraid server running 24/7 with a 10-ish year old USB stick from one of those 'print your logo on a usb stick' companies.... never had issues with it.

 

NOW.. if you're doing a lot of writes to it, that's potentially problematic. USB sticks dont have great write endurance, and they often lack the ability to sink the heat of continuous writes, making stuff get REAL hot.

 

if you want a quick and dirty way to have usb storage for lots of writes, buy one of those cheap USB 3.0 enclosures, and stick either a cheapo SSD or a laptop hard drive in it.

[Kanna]

49 minutes ago, Dedayog said:

I have a USB in my PC 24/7, can't imagine the Xbox being any different.  I'd leave it.

54 minutes ago, NF-A12x25 said:

USB flash drives degrade pretty fast either way so I would recommend getting a USB hard drive, they are quite cheap, however leaving it in all day won’t be that big of an issue. Just be careful if the recordings are something you want to keep, flash drives are a bad long-term storage media.

I feel like it would be a lot to have 2 external hard drives connected to the xbox but I will be thinking about it, it's not really recordings I need to keep but it would be nice to keep lol

53 minutes ago, podkall said:

That and it depends if the USB gets too hot while being in or not

It doesn't get as hot over a night in the xbox as in the TV just a few hours, which I think is good.

19 minutes ago, manikyath said:

i've got an unraid server running 24/7 with a 10-ish year old USB stick from one of those 'print your logo on a usb stick' companies.... never had issues with it.

 

NOW.. if you're doing a lot of writes to it, that's potentially problematic. USB sticks dont have great write endurance, and they often lack the ability to sink the heat of continuous writes, making stuff get REAL hot.

 

if you want a quick and dirty way to have usb storage for lots of writes, buy one of those cheap USB 3.0 enclosures, and stick either a cheapo SSD or a laptop hard drive in it.

I might just have got unlucky with the old USB or it was the fact the TV made it kinda hot. As for SSD or HDD, I stated my view on that above.

 

[podkall]

1 hour ago, Kanna said:

I feel like it would be a lot to have 2 external hard drives connected to the xbox but I will be thinking about it, it's not really recordings I need to keep but it would be nice to keep lol

Why 2 isn't one external drive enough?

[Kanna]

Just now, podkall said:

Why 2 isn't one external drive enough?

No, I have one for my games at the moment. Getting one for the clips would make it two

[podkall]

2 minutes ago, Kanna said:

No, I have one for my games at the moment. Getting one for the clips would make it two

Right.. I suppose it's fine, if you have space somewhere else you can have the things u got on that USB backed up in case it goes, but it probably won't.

[Kanna]

10 minutes ago, podkall said:

Right.. I suppose it's fine, if you have space somewhere else you can have the things u got on that USB backed up in case it goes, but it probably won't.

Yeah I usually just throw the clips onto my PC when the USB drive get's full so that's some back up