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

As the Pi can boot from USB, I wonder if anyone tried to use those "SSD in pendrive form factor" devices for this, eg. the Transcend ESD310S 512GB?

[–] theorangeninja@lemmy.today 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] inagy@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

Is cake day even a thing on day zero? Haha.. thanks! :)

[–] PracticalChameleon@feddit.org 2 points 3 months ago

Jeff Geerling ran some benchmarks on USB storage options in 2020, including a pen drive SSD: https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2020/fastest-usb-storage-options-raspberry-pi