Raspberry Pi OS now has SATA support built-in • Hacker News Board

Re: Raspberry Pi OS now has SATA support built-in

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Post by cyberge99 » Sat, Jul 31, 2021, 10:07 PM UTC

pcdoodle wrote: post #28

magicalhippo wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

It usually dies during an ungraceful shutdown. Had at least 3 go over the years until I switched to USB to SATA SSD boot. Not a problem since.

Standard Pi perhaps, but the official Pi Compute module supports sata. Geerlinguy did a nice writup about it.

Re: Raspberry Pi OS now has SATA support built-in

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Post by cyberge99 » Sat, Jul 31, 2021, 10:09 PM UTC

Fronzie wrote: post #21

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?

Mine runs fine for months on end. Things I did which might have helped: mount /tmp in a ramdisk and have an enclosure with good passive cooling

Isn’t /tmp always mounted in ram these days or is that distro specific?

Re: Raspberry Pi OS now has SATA support built-in

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Post by BackBlast » Mon, Aug 02, 2021, 1:51 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…

I purchased 2 Pi4s to run various small self-host services on. I've lost two SD cards in the course of about 6 months, and I've generally had stability problems with both of them, the hangs seem mostly tied to SD card and USB controller issues from what I can tell. I think my highest uptime is about 4 weeks. I'm not sure if it's heat or power related, or just bad SD cards, or general instability of the 4.

Regardless, I'm done monkeying with Pi 4s, and I'm moving to cost comparable PC Thin Clients for my self-hosting needs.

Never had any issues with several Pi3s over the years. They just don't have the oomph anymore for my needs.