I have been running Home Assistant OS (HAOS) for a while on an old thin client. The old ssd just died. It’s quite likely that the frequency of the disk writes for the logs and database had a significant contribution to killing the ssd. I have four systems with the same hardware (ebay lot of corporate thin clients) and only the HAOS system disk died. SMART tests on the other 3 are perfect!
I was wondering if anyone has considered/looked into setting up the system with logs and database on tmpfs.
I would prefer that the database is periodically saved to disk (maybe every 10 minutes or so), I don’t care about recovering the logs between reboots that much.
Finally, I don’t care about compression (e.g. zram). I have plenty of RAM (16G) and, in standard configuration (no tmpfs as far as I can determine) HAOS uses about 1-2G.