Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by gureddio 1265 days ago
Sounds neat. Are you doing anything to mitigate the possibility of SD card corruption with the Raspberry Pis?

I used to use a single RP to run as a media server, and it was great, but stopped using it after suffering from SD card corruption.
2 comments
teh_klev 1265 days ago
You can boot a Pi4 (and some older Pi boards) from more reliable storage attached to a USB port these days (e.g. SSD).

https://www.raspberrypi.com/documentation/computers/raspberr...

You can also network boot as well:

https://www.raspberrypi.com/documentation/computers/raspberr...

link
cantagi 1265 days ago
TBH I haven't ever had a problem with SD card corruption so far. If I did, it wouldn't really matter, since all the important data is on the RAID array, and the OS can be reprovisioned if needed.

Performance proved to be an issue for SD cards though, when attempting to host nextcloud and postgres. I do what teh_klev is talking about and selected the fastest USB stick I could find, which was a Samsung FIT Plus 128 GB Type-A 300 MB/s USB 3.1 Flash Drive (MUF-128AB), and this gave me a huge speedup.

Unfortunately Jellyfin is not really fast enough on an rpi and I have no solution.

link