<div dir="ltr"><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, 8 Feb 2026 at 20:29, Khalid Baheyeldin <<a href="mailto:kb@2bits.com">kb@2bits.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">On Thu, Jan 22, 2026 at 5:20\u202fPM John Van Ostrand <<a href="mailto:john@vanostrand.com" target="_blank">john@vanostrand.com</a>> wrote:</div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div>Last year I migrated to a Raspberry Pi 4 and external USB HDD using OpenMediaVault, the idea was to reduce power consumption.</div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default">Question: </div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default">Is your Raspberry Pi 4's root disk a microSD card?</div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default"><br></div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default">That is how I run mine for Home Assistant, but I am concerned about flash's durability.</div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default">Especially so when it is Linux and there are SystemD logs, syslog, MariaDB and InfluxDB, ..etc.</div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default"><br></div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default">SSDs (or better yet, NVMes) provide more durable "drives", but they are not supported natively on the RPi.</div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default"><br></div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default">What do others use in this case?</div></div></div>
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