[arm-allstar] Overkill Controller Setup

[David McGough]

Hi Mike,

Certainly, you can manually configure the HamVoIP installation to boot 
from an SSD drive.  Personally, with the money for the SSD, I would spend 
that money on a robust power solution instead.

I've run into an assortment of hams who are just convinced that SD cards
are unreliable---I've stopped trying to convince them otherwise.  My one
comment has been that if you're buying quality SD cards and continually
having failures, whatever is causing those failures will probably also
cause the SSD drive to fail, too.  Remember: if at all possible, just like 
for any Linux system, perform a proper powerdown, if possible.

I've still had *NO* SD card failures at all, even on systems I very
heavily use, like my development boards and on hard to access repeaters.  
Several of these repeaters are now reaching 2 years since the last RPi3
reboot!  I've got about 60 RPi4B boards now co-located in my "Pi Farm."  
No SD card failures at all.  Absolutely perfect performance.

I'm using these DC-DC converters to provide the 5V power to the RPi3/RPi4 
boards:   https://www.ebay.com/itm/223524573272

And, these SD cards:   https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07MR6K8PD


Note that these prices are about 50% higher now than last year...GRRRRR  
At least they're in stock.


Merry Christmas!


73, David KB4FXC


On Thu, 23 Dec 2021, "Mike Sullivan via ARM-allstar" wrote:

> I'm planning on putting up a repeater using two mobile radios and a Pi with
> Hamvoip and a RIM-Lite Maxtrac-RM interface. I know Hamvoip is designed to
> be used with micro SD cards with limited writes to the card itself, but
> would there be any harm in taking it a step further and using a case that
> utilizes a M.2 SSD instead to guarantee reliability? I know it's way
> overkill, but is there anything that will be affected other than my pocket
> by doing this? I have a non-ham setup using a Pi 4 with an Argon ONE case
> and M.2 SSD running Windows 10 that has been working flawless since
> installed.
> 
> Mike
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