Raspberry Pi OS now has SATA support built-in

Post by zinekeller » Sat, Jul 31, 2021, 10:17 AM UTC

yftsui wrote: post #19

geerlingguy wrote: post #12

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Many applications won't allow the RAID to be set up over USB devices (e.g. Open Media Vault, IIRC), because software RAID over USB is prone to flakiness.

? pretty sure Open Media Vault on Raspberry Pi could setup a RAID with 2 USB hard drives, have been using it for almost 3 years.

Post by mattowen_uk » Sat, Jul 31, 2021, 11:52 AM UTC

35mm wrote: post #20

Does anyone know if booting off a USB stick instead of SD card will prevent my RPi 4 from crashing every ~1-3 days?

Post by Abishek_Muthian » Sat, Jul 31, 2021, 1:09 PM UTC

zinekeller wrote: post #22

yftsui wrote: post #19

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? pretty sure Open Media Vault on Raspberry Pi could setup a RAID with 2 USB hard drives, have been using it for almost 3 years.

USB Attached SCSI is the answer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB_Attached_SCSI

Post by pcdoodle » Sat, Jul 31, 2021, 1:47 PM UTC

magicalhippo wrote: post #27

SeriousM wrote: post #18

The one thing that kept me away from the raspberry pi was that the sd card tends to fail after some time (hours to weeks). Now I just wait until the board gets built with a single sata slot.

I've used various RPi's (and clones) for years now, and I've never had a SD card fail. One RPi has been running my Home Assistant for 3 years 24/7, with a very noisy ZWave network that has debug logging on. I had one where I _thought_ there was something weird going on with the SD card, but it turned out to be a crappy USB cable that lead to excessive voltage drop under load. Swapped the cable and it's been running m…

Post by lukifer » Sat, Jul 31, 2021, 6:48 PM UTC

SeriousM wrote: post #18

The one thing that kept me away from the raspberry pi was that the sd card tends to fail after some time (hours to weeks). Now I just wait until the board gets built with a single sata slot.