I was planning to set transcoding on the M.2 by using a Pi M.2 Hat board. However, since the M.2 is already there, should I just use it to run the OS and downloads, too, or just use it as a transcoding consumable and media drive? This Pi 5 has 16Gb of RAM, so it might handle every bit of the transcoding regardless, but I have not tested it. I’m also concerned about latency between the main Pi board and the hat, connected with a flexible circuit board cable.
Also, anyone have issues with media storage on external drive when using Plex/media servers?
Equipment has been ordered but has not been delivered yet. Should come the next few days.
I have never had an issue with SD-cards but if I would invest in a m.2 hat I would definitely use it for everything.
It’s faster and more reliable and disk space isn’t that expensive nowadays.
If you do run off an SD card, consider DietPi as your OS (it’s Debian based), they implement methods to improve longevity of SD cards.
They also have a very nice set of custom CLI tools for easy system management.
I’ll look i to DietPi and check out the CLI tools. Thanks!
With yunohost I have never burnt any sd, even if I got some blackouts.
The reason why (probably): paying for a good quality big one. One of those 256GB and premium tier (sorry I don’t remember the codes on them but you can easily check them)
Nonetheless, I have 3 backups of that data tho. If it’s just about “using” it I wouldn’t worry. If you wanna stack films series etc, backup on hard drives :)
If you can I always prefer a M.2 instead of a SD card for the OS. I have burned true so many SD cards in the past. caching and updates to the OS can break the SD card eventually.
Definitely run everything on the M.2 since you have it. MicroSD is so slow and wears out super quickly.
Run the os off the m2. Don’t trust sd cards for anything other than bulk transient storage, simple data structures and filesystems that will be quickly moved to other systems.
