Thoughts on hosting OS on microSD vs M.2 hat + SSD on Raspberry Pi 5 for Plex/Jellyfin/torrenting and maybe cloud? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

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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.

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[-] rumba@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 week ago

I have a decent number of pis At work doing media control. I only get a few years out of the sds

The ones that do a lot of disk activity, I set them up to boot off SD and then they just run the OS/logs from a thumb drive with a heat sink on it. The ones I set up that way haven't failed yet but it's been like 5 years so confirmation bias is a bitch.

An m.2 with a heat sink would be a very prudent move if you don't want to have to go back and do it again. The longevity of those is really decent.