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Cheap but reliable external SSD for RPis (lemmy.today)
submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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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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[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 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).

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Are you using SATA to USB adapters? If yes, which one work well?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

You can go with something like this if you want a clean solution.

I use a drive dock station for my backup drives, and I have a few of these for one-offs too.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 months ago

Yeah, I use something like this, a no-brand enclosure.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 months ago

I have a couple of no-brand SATA-USB enclosers with some jmicron chipset. Can't remember the exact chipset right now, as my RPi is not working ATM (see edit).

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (1 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.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Thank you, that worked!

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 months ago

YW 😄