A. Dumas  wrote:
> Haven't seen sdcard-sized ssd's, yet, but haven't looked either. I do know
> there's this, supposedly it's ssd-technique in a usb stick, 128 GB version
> of which can be had here for €60 inc. tax:
> https://www.sandisk.com/home/usb-flash/extremepro-usb

The Samsung Portable SSD T5, 250 GB version for €90 is definitely a better
price per GB and probably a better product if you don't care about the
stick form factor. For one it's actually usb 3.1 gen2, not 3.1 gen1 which
is actually just 3.0; although of course one or the other won't matter with
the RPi's usb 2.0 ports. More importantly, and it's maddening that they
don't give technical details, I trust the controller/provisioning of an
actual ssd in external housing more than a "solid state" usb stick.

But yeah, at €90 it does get a bit mad for a $35 computer. What I did for
my home server which has to be more reliable than an sd card, is buy a 2.5"
portable spinning disk of 1 TB for, idk, €45? Speeds are fine over usb 2.0
and as a server on wifi. Haven't used it on the desktop, though; maybe it
would need more snap there.

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