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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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[–] empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I've personally been using a Teamgroup 1tb from Amazon and a few KingSpec (from Aliexpress) 500gb SATA and PCIe M.2 drives for about a year and a half now without much problem or reported health loss. They are not performance winners of course but they still beat the pants off spinning rust.

YMMV of course, always keeps backups or don't keep anything you'd be super sad to lose on them.

[–] theorangeninja@lemmy.today 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

What does YMMV mean? And yeah sure, I just want to run the OS on the SSD and a few containers but the rest on HDDs and also backups on other HDDs.

[–] Markaos@lemmy.one 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Your mileage may vary - your experience might be different for one reason or another