Raspberry Pi OS now has SATA support built-in

Re:Raspberry Pi OS now has SATA support built-in by magicalhippo on Saturday July 31, 2021 @09:30AM (#28017965)

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 my PiHole for over 2 years now on a standard Armbian+Docker install, zero issues.

Maybe I've just been lucky?

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Re:Raspberry Pi OS now has SATA support built-in by BackBlast on Monday August 02, 2021 @09:51AM (#28036482)

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.

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Re:Raspberry Pi OS now has SATA support built-in by pcdoodle on Saturday July 31, 2021 @09:47AM (#28018095)

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.

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Re:Raspberry Pi OS now has SATA support built-in by cyberge99 on Saturday July 31, 2021 @06:07PM (#28021943)

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

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