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.
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Engywuck@lemm.ee 1 month ago
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.
FarraigePlaisteach@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Engywuck@lemm.ee 1 month ago
sudo smartctl -a /dev/sdX should do the job
theorangeninja@lemmy.today 1 month ago
Is this command to check the health of the SSD/drive in general?
FarraigePlaisteach@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Thank you, that worked!
Engywuck@lemm.ee 1 month ago
YW 😄
theorangeninja@lemmy.today 1 month ago
Are you using SATA to USB adapters? If yes, which one work well?
thayer@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
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.
theorangeninja@lemmy.today 1 month ago
Thank you, I think I will go with this and a SSD from crucial to start off and then add some HDDs for backup and NAS. Do you think this kind of enclosure is reliable enough for a NAS? And is there enough airflow if you add two 3.5" HDDs together in the dock station?
Engywuck@lemm.ee 1 month ago
Yeah, I use something like this, a no-brand enclosure.
Engywuck@lemm.ee 1 month 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).
paf@jlai.lu 1 month ago
I’m not 100% sure but this might also depend which OS you are running on your pi. Did change from SD card to SSD few years back for my home assistant setup (now running with a mini pc) at the time I went for a geekpi adapter (can’t recall exact model).
Try a quick ducduck search “sata adapter #yourOS#” and see if a list come up. Here is one for HA (but surely more models are compatible than the ones listed here) community.home-assistant.io/t/…/212763