Subj : Re: Another Droid is offline
To   : xqtr
From : Warpslide
Date : Sun Mar 06 2022 11:22:18

On 06 Mar 2022, Gamgee said the following...

 xq> The SDCARD on the RPi hosting the BBS has corrupted again, so the
 xq> BBS is down for the time being.

 Ga> If that RPi is a model 3B or higher, you can configure it to boot from 
 Ga> an external (USB-attached) hard drive (or SSD).  No SD card required, 
 Ga> and no SD card to fail.  

This.

I boot from a 250GB "PiDrive" on my Pi 4, much better performance and more reliable than an SD card.  Granted this PiDrive is spinning, if it ever starts to go I'd move to a SSD.


Jay

.... Who is General Failure, and why is he reading my disk?

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A48 2022/03/04 (Raspberry Pi/32)
 * Origin: Northern Realms (21:3/110)

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