I have used a portable (bus powered) 5TB USB HD and a full-size 10TB USB HD connected to my RPi4 2GB for over 3 years running 24/7. I have had no issue running samba on my home network and having access to the drives over SSH (internet). I swapped my RPi4 with a new RPi5 (using the same SD card) and ran some benchmarks... no noticeable performance increase. I have lots of files... media, games, roms, pictures and having TBs of storage is a must. As soon as a 8TB SSD is under $300 I probably will switch to SSDs, but until then HDs work just fine.
I am very impressed with the RPi4... it has been extremely reliable for me.
I am very impressed with the RPi4... it has been extremely reliable for me.
Statistics: Posted by chipace — Wed Feb 07, 2024 1:28 am