Long story short, my SD card killed itself when running Home Assistant, and then I learned the hard way that Home Assistant OS and SD cards don't mix (especially since I don't have an A2 or better SD Card). Would a Sandisk Ultra USB3 drive work? The only SSDs I have are either boot drives for another computer or one for storing 2TB of Google Takeout, so SSDs are out of the question.
#Can I use a USB thumb drive to run HAOS
rare onyx
brazen bone
They would work yes but they may only be marginally better than microsd cards
broken bobcat
Or worse.
rare onyx
My microSD card died within a few hours after trying to set up all of our smart devices, after a reflash a few hours later it was also getting initialization errors as the card would get stuck in busy state, so as long as a USB drive can last me a while enough until I can implement a better storage solution (like offloading databases to my main computer, etc.), is it worth it?
Note: the microSD card might have went through the washing machine once but it ran Ubuntu and Android just fine after that and started failing with HA, maybe because of the random read/writes of Home Assistant?
brazen bone
if you want to use a raspberry pi, just buy a small usb attached ssd
there is no reason to offload anything to anywhere just for the sake of it
rare onyx
Unfortunately I don't have an SSD that is not being used for something else 😭
brazen bone
they can be obtained for fairly cheap
tho you may also want to get a powered usb hub
rare onyx
they can be obtained for fairly cheap
I'm 14 and my parents are likely not going to get another ssd
brazen bone
the alternative, buy a ha green, yellow or repurpose a proper sff system
rare onyx
the alternative, buy a ha green, yellow or repurpose a proper sff system
Unfortunately that's not an option because I can't really do that so I am stuck with the Pi
gray monolith
For what it's worth, "fairly cheap" is on the order of about $20-30 for a 120GB SATA SSD and a USB to SATA adapter. That might be a bit more palatable to your parents
rare onyx
For what it's worth, "fairly cheap" is on the order of about $20-30 for a 120GB ...
I have an adapter, but my SSD is in a laptop and why would they get me another one I am not that spoiled lol
That SSD was my dad's old one
gray monolith
$10-20, in that case. Can't speak for your parents, but if you explain what it'd be used for they might be lenient
Or, alternatively, if you've got the money you could ask them to make the purchase for you
With all that said, though, the Sandisk drive you mentioned should be perfectly usable for a time
rare onyx
With all that said, though, the Sandisk drive you mentioned should be perfectly ...
Yeah, at least not as bad as the cheap Gigastone card with no A rating whatsoever that died within a matter of hours
rare onyx
For some reason HA logs everything, even stuff that isn't useful so I think that I could prolong the life of each storage device if I log less
brazen bone
with real storage this simply does not matter
rare onyx
with real storage this simply does not matter
Yeah, I agree. But as specified earlier, until I can get my hands on real storage, this is a solution.
broken bobcat
You never really know when a log becomes important. I'd say almost all logs are never really looked at and "useless".
If it really has to be something cheap or a SD Card a endurance one can be had for 10-12 bucks or so. If you really have to you can also just run HAOS in a virtual machine on your laptop until you can get proper storage.
rare onyx
If it really has to be something cheap or a SD Card a endurance one can be had f...
Good idea. I might be able to use my SSD for HA once I am done tinkering with Arch in my laptop, or if another one becomes unused I could use that. So far it's running fine on a USB so far, made it log mainly warnings, etc. and not everything to make sure I have enough time to get something.
I can't run it on my laptop with the SSD, it's a 12 year old piece of crap that barely runs anything lol, and I do have a couple other computers but I actually use those for other stuff already.
opal shale
The thing with cheap SSD is, depending on the model they use bottom shelf controller and nand. I had better experience with buying a used enterprise ssd, namely Intel DC s4500. They already spent 5-6 years in some server but usually are still quite virgin. Those I snatched on eBay for 20$ each have 480gb, and had only 31tb written from their rated 0.9 pb as they are designed for one full drive write per day over their 5year warranty