I’m new to HA thanks to a Span Panel plugin that I’ve been searching for an found here. Anyway, currently I have a VM running HAOS that I’ve been experimenting with and adding sensors and such with MQTT and rtl_433 on another rPi.
I know I’m just barely scratching the surface on what HA can do and I’m intending to migrate completely from HomeBridge to HA/HomeKit completely. In making this a permanent part of my home, I’m going to build an install running HAOS on an rPi 4 (4GB RAM + PoE HAT) with a 256GB microSD card.
The question is, would I benefit from attaching a 1TB USB SSD as well?
I’m asking because while I get that I’m only scratching the surface of what HA can do, I already have the SSD and SATA-USB cable handy. I have network storage available but local SSDs would be faster if there is a need for it.