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Status Under review
Workspace IBM i
Categories Hardware
Created by Guest
Created on Aug 19, 2025

RELATED IDEAS

Add support for USB devices >256GB

As LTO Drives and media getting larger (and more expensive) it is not longer suitable for a daily backup on small environments.

So a lot of customers use USB thumbdrives, but these are only supported up to 256GB

Please add support (and test) for larger drives, or even for external harddisks (for backup purposes only)

Idea priority Medium
  • Guest
    Sep 24, 2025

    I fully support this too

    Reply
  • Guest
    Sep 16, 2025
    Thank you for submitting your Idea, requesting that larger USB Flash Drives be supported The technical teams are evaluating. IBM will provide a response after evaluation is complete.
    Power Systems Development
    Reply
  • Guest
    Sep 6, 2025

    Yes, this is great improvement.

    Reply
  • Guest
    Aug 27, 2025

    Great idea. I fully support this.

    Reply
  • Guest
    Aug 21, 2025

    I fully support this important idea.

    Reply
  • Guest
    Aug 19, 2025

    Sounds like a great idea to me.

    Reply
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Enable USB Flash Drives >256GB as a Certified Backup Alternative to RDX for Power10 Systems

Merged
Overland-Tandberg, the industry supplier of RDX docks, has gone bankrupt and ceased operations. This caused the shipping stop of RDX for all Power10 products. RDX was very popular in the Italy market, it was the backup solution for all entry Power...
8 months ago in IBM i / Hardware 4 Under review

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