Somewhat related, I’m so annoyed that my USB 3.0 SATA adapter doesn’t pass S.M.A.R.T. data. Didn’t even think to check for such a deficiency. Just another thing to watch out for when buying these adapters.
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rentar42@kbin.social 1 year ago
There is one wrinkle: Some USB->SATA chips/enclosures/adapters are "bad" in that they don't fully implement the latest specs, as described here: https://forums.raspberrypi.com/viewtopic.php?t=245931
These can be worked-around by using the "older" usb-storage drive, but that may need to be manually enabled.
tarjeezy@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
LufyCZ@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I’d personally raise the min. storage to 2TB, SSDs are too cheap nowadays
rentar42@kbin.social 1 year ago
Fair enough. Cheap is relative, price-per-GB is still cheaper for spinning rust and where exactly to draw the line is entirely personal.
LufyCZ@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Value wise I’d say 2tb is the sweet spot, at least looking at the prices around here.
$48 / 2TB HDD $82 / 2TB NVMe SSD
yes it is almost double, but the ssd is most likely gonna last longer, suck up less electricity and is muuuuch faster to boot
so at least long-term, it might actually be cheaper