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Cheap but reliable external SSD for RPis (lemmy.today)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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Hello, it's me again. I read a lot about how unreliable micro SD cards are if you use your RPi to selfhost some stuff. Now I wanted to ask if some of you might have recommendations for cheap but reliable external SSDs. I did some research on Amazon but there are some brands I never heard before (Intenso, SSK, Netac, etc.) and don't know if they can be trusted.

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[–] [S] 5 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Are you using SATA to USB adapters? If yes, which one work well?

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    You can go with something like this if you want a clean solution.

    I use a drive dock station for my backup drives, and I have a few of these for one-offs too.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 2 years ago

    Thank you, I think I will go with this and a SSD from crucial to start off and then add some HDDs for backup and NAS. Do you think this kind of enclosure is reliable enough for a NAS? And is there enough airflow if you add two 3.5" HDDs together in the dock station?

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago*

    I'm not 100% sure but this might also depend which OS you are running on your pi. Did change from SD card to SSD few years back for my home assistant setup (now running with a mini pc) at the time I went for a geekpi adapter (can't recall exact model).

    Try a quick ducduck search "sata adapter #yourOS#" and see if a list come up. Here is one for HA (but surely more models are compatible than the ones listed here) https://community.home-assistant.io/t/working-usb-enclosures-and-adapters-with-hassos/212763

    Edit: as for SSD, I went for Samsung EVO model

    Sidenote: all SSD will be more reliable than a sd card because they are less sensitive to rewrite counts

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