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Hello, it's me again. I read a lot about how unreliable micro SD cards are if you use your RPi to selfhost some stuff. Now I wanted to ask if some of you might have recommendations for cheap but reliable external SSDs. I did some research on Amazon but there are some brands I never heard before (Intenso, SSK, Netac, etc.) and don't know if they can be trusted.

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[–] Engywuck@lemm.ee 11 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (11 children)

I'm using a couple of cheap Kingston A400 for my setup (120 and 480 GB) and they work just fine. One thing I noticed is that the 120 GB one's health went down to 92%, from 100%, in "just" one year (smart parameter). But that's implies a lifetime of more that 12 years, so I'm not excessively concerned.

EDIT: of course, just after writing this comment the smaller SSD began to behave strangely (errors in dmesg).

[–] FarraigePlaisteach@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Is there a one-line command to check my SSD? I have a headless setup. When I’ve tried on the past there was more results coming back than I knew what to do with.

[–] Engywuck@lemm.ee 1 points 3 months ago (2 children)

sudo smartctl -a /dev/sdX should do the job

[–] theorangeninja@lemmy.today 1 points 3 months ago

Is this command to check the health of the SSD/drive in general?

[–] FarraigePlaisteach@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] Engywuck@lemm.ee 1 points 3 months ago
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