Submitted 1 year ago by MigratingtoLemmy@lemmy.world to selfhosted@lemmy.world
Hi, I’m looking for SBCs where I can run the OS on one storage device, and the applications on another. I believe a couple of Khadas boards have such features, but they also have some other peripherals that I don’t need. I want something like a LibreComputing potato but with the capability to have 2 storage devices (not through USB please, it had proven to be unreliable). I plan to use this as an IOT/Network infrastructure server (Pi-Hole, Unbound, VPN etc).
Any suggestions?
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:
Fewer Letters | More Letters ---|--- NUC | Next Unit of Computing brand of Intel small computers SATA | Serial AT Attachment interface for mass storage SBC | Single-Board Computer SSD | Solid State Drive mass storage
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SD cards are not known for reliability either. A decent USB drive can get you SMART passthrough at least.
Orange pi 5 can boot from SD and then use a NVME M.2-2242 SSD as storage. Or boot directly from the NVME if you set up their spi flash bootloader. Good memory and cpu options but they’re pricey for what you get
Thanks, I’ll take a look
You'd be better off with something that has an EMMC slot (or ideally SATA connection). Running the OS off of an SD card is painfully slow. I've also found USB storage to be way more reliable than SD cards, in general. I used an external 4-bay drive connected via usb3 for years and never had issues. Burned through many SD cards over the same period.
neoney@lemmy.neoney.dev 1 year ago
I wouldn’t want even 1 card. I wish my pi just had a sata slot. These fucking cards just die so quickly. It’s one of the reasons I’m looking for some thin client/NUC.
neoney@lemmy.neoney.dev 1 year ago
There are thin clients that have an M.2 slot and an mSATA (or just normal sata), you should try that.