hardy marsh
I'm gonna transfer over my HA installation from an old Nuc to a Raspberry Pi 5 but i'm reading a lot that i shouldn't run HaOS on a SD card. I've currently got this one https://www.amazon.se/dp/B09X7DNF6G?ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_fed_asin_title&th=1. If it's not a good idea what should i use? I would like to avoid buying an NVME so if there's a USB drive i could use instead?
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The only real suggestion is a SSD but why do you want to switch to a pi? What's wrong with the NUC? They are generally better than pis: #general-archived message
hardy marsh
The nuc is doing a lot of work right now and it almost 10+ years. I'm mostly doings it because i want some redundancy since. And also because i have a PI 5 and like to tinker 🙂
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I have some 10 year old servers too. They work fine. Pis are just not good hardware. I'd suggest you to send it back and buy another SFF PC instead 😄
If you want to keep it a NVMe SSD is the "best" choice. Alternatively a SATA SSD with a powered USB HUB.
hardy marsh
SFF PC ?
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Small Form Factor. Like your NUC for example.
hardy marsh
aha
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If you insist on SD Cards you should look for ones with proper wear leveling or marked as Endurance. That only helps with them dying from writes, not with corruption issues or speed.
hardy marsh
I see. Thx
harsh orchid
I would suggest a class 10 SD card, I’ve been using SanDisk cards with various Pis for 10 years without issue (pi5 for 6 months) . It’s a good platform for a small to medium HA installation. One tip ….. Always use the official power supply.
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You really have to look to find anything but a class 10 card. What's important for this use case, other than what I already mentioned, is IOPS/4K/small reads/writes and for that A2 is the thing you want to look for. Class 10 simply means at least 10MB/s transfer rate which is nothing.