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I don't care about bandwidth, everything you need should fit in ram anyway. Reliability is the only thing I care about. And you can't have that with sd-cards.
by tjoff 3y ago
I don't care about bandwidth, everything you need should fit in ram anyway.
Reliability is the only thing I care about. And you can't have that with sd-cards.
- tjoff 3y agoFor the Pi5 you could use the m2 hat and an m2. Which seems to come in at a total cost of, guessing, maybe $25 or something. If that works well (which it should?) that is an absolute nobrainer and game-changer for reability alone.
- eternityforest 3y agoAre you running Home Assistant or a DVR or both? Or something with Chromium as digital signage, without putting all it's profile folder crap in RAM? I've never had a reliability issue with SD cards, I've even seen other people set up stuff on no name cards that run for years, but I keep seeing posts about them on HA boards. Plus now there are industrial-ish microSD cards for similar or less cost than other kinds of storage.
- tjoff 3y agoIf you treat it as read-only, then yes, sd-cards work fine. But setting that up can be a hassle depending on the project, and completely out of character for what the raspberry is. But that is what I do, because you can't use the Pi reliably if you don't (or if you fiddle with external storage). And that is a serious limitation and something that the majority of Pi users don't. And thus endless suffering. It is not in the same ballpark as "easy to manage configuration". And many applications require that you write to storage at least some of the time. Such as HA. And in turn you must use external storage.