Raspberry Pi – UASP, Trim, and Boot Performance via USB

Re:Raspberry Pi – UASP, Trim, and Boot Performance via USB by Zenst on Sunday September 20, 2020 @03:55AM (#24532581)

I ran 5 USB drivers (4x USB3 and 1x USB2) of a powered USB3 hub attached to a RPi4 a few weeks back as was clearing up some drives and data juggling between them. Had that running for few days with no issues at all and was thrashed a few times with moves/copies across all the drives.

So indications are good, and the drives in this case was a WD SSD, 3x Toshiba bus powered drives and an ancient 320gb usb externally powered WD affair. So a but of a mix. Though I did have it plugged into a UPS, which like all things tech - kinda helps smooth out the random chaos of electricity and tech.

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Re:Raspberry Pi – UASP, Trim, and Boot Performance via USB by imtringued on Monday September 21, 2020 @02:58AM (#24540585)

Most storage corruption problems related Rasberry PIs are just PSU problems. Flash drives and SD cards draw their power directly from the Rasberry PI and since those only use a crappy micro USB port or a buggy USB C port you're going to run into issues, especially if you use a random USB charger instead of the official power supplies. External storage like an SSD that uses its own power supply (via the USB hub) will be far more reliable.

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