I use a Raspberry Pi as my daily computer for over a year now

Re:I use a Raspberry Pi as my daily computer for over a year... by rambambram on Friday October 28, 2022 @09:46AM (#33371328)

> The best thing I did was to have it boot from a cheap kingston 120GB ssd ($18 now). Makes a world of difference in speed.

Nice. I also want to try this, just to get the most speed and performance out of it, without giving in reliability or durability. I should also check out Jeff Geerling's comparison of different MicroSD cards for the RPi.

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Re:I use a Raspberry Pi as my daily computer for over a year... by happyhardcore on Friday October 28, 2022 @09:55AM (#33371429)

I started out using a cheap MicroSD and it only lasted a week or two before failing; I've since replaced it with a 128 GB SATA SSD with a USB3-SATA dongle I bought off Amazon. No SD card needed and it's served me incredibly well. I figured that even the best MicroSD card isn't going to be designed to run as a computer's boot drive, and SATA SSDs are cheap and plentiful.

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Re:I use a Raspberry Pi as my daily computer for over a year... by rambambram on Friday October 28, 2022 @09:59AM (#33371472)

I should definitely look into this, thanks!

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Re:I use a Raspberry Pi as my daily computer for over a year... by justin66 on Friday October 28, 2022 @10:15AM (#33371642)

If you want to avoid sacrificing reliability, get a Samsung portable SSD. SSD-SATA dongles and SD cards will all represent a step down in reliability.

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Re:I use a Raspberry Pi as my daily computer for over a year... by rambambram on Friday October 28, 2022 @10:50AM (#33372056)

Thanks for the tip!

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