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SD are far too easy to wear out and RPi (?) is not a reliable platform. There's far more powerful, 1000x more reliable and cost effective options these days for a home node. If you want reliability you want to get rid of RPi, SD cards, and external attached storage. If you want safety for an LN node you absolutely need two disks. Past advice on this was dangerous because this approach used to be too expensive. Not anymore.

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alanajoy 2y ago

So everything I already have I should just get rid of? I mean, I spent like almost $300, it’d be great if I could get it to work. It was working before I moved. I’ve been following along in your Twitter community about this solution that you’ve attached, and I am open to exploring that in the future, but I would love to make what I have now work for me if possible. 🥺🫡🙏

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Warren Togami 2y ago

Unfortunately RPi was not a good choice to begin with for anything you intend to rely upon. I was mad for years about this watching people buy overpriced kits that I knew would be disappointing. From 2018 I looked into the feasibility of designing a reliable aarch64 board with two nvme SSD slots. Costs of that custom design were too high then the pandemic supply chain shortages killed feasibility even further.

The biggest time waste in the world is unreliable hardware. Umbrel and the appliance distros should really focus their efforts on ordinary PC hardware deployment and TWO INTERNAL DISKS.

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alanajoy 2y ago

💯 When I first got going, I got everything that I have now from a list directly from Umbrel. 🤕

Will definitely be coming your way when I’m ready to upgrade, which might be sooner rather than later if this troubleshooting doesn’t get anywhere.