[kwlug-disc] NAS -- what protocol?

[CrankyOldBugger]

Having several Raspberry Pi's myself, I can tell you that they are known
for eating SD cards.  On my older systems that depend on the SD card, I
regular do a 'dd' to back up the whole disk to a server.  On the newer
Raspi 5's, however, I've managed to set them all up with NVME drives and
removed the SD card.

I'm not sure if you can move Raspi 3 or 4s to a NVME, but I'm tempted to
say no, they don't have that capability.


On Sun, 8 Feb 2026 at 20:29, Khalid Baheyeldin <kb at 2bits.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 22, 2026 at 5:20 PM John Van Ostrand <john at vanostrand.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Last year I migrated to a Raspberry Pi 4 and external USB HDD using
>> OpenMediaVault, the idea was to reduce power consumption.
>>
>
> Question:
> Is your Raspberry Pi 4's root disk a microSD card?
>
> That is how I run mine for Home Assistant, but I am concerned about
> flash's durability.
> Especially so when it is Linux and there are SystemD logs, syslog, MariaDB
> and InfluxDB, ..etc.
>
> SSDs (or better yet, NVMes) provide more durable "drives", but they are
> not supported natively on the RPi.
>
> What do others use in this case?
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