Hi, I have just moved HA to Argon M.2 case with RPi4 8Gb + Kingston A400 M.2 SSD. The migration process is easy and smooth. I have CC2531 hooked up to the RPi4 with an USB extension cable to USB2 and it seems stable.
Here are the quick re-cap on what I did for the migration,
Update the bootloader firmware by flashing the USB boot firmware with the Raspberry Pi Imager software. There is USB boot firmware under Misc section and the flashing is very quick, ~1min.
Put the SD card into RPi4 and hooked up the power supply, no internet access is needed. The green LED should starting flashing. I was told the firmware update is completed in seconds, but to be safe, just wait for +/- 10min and shutdown the power supply and pull the SD card out.
I flashed the SSD with Etcher using a male to male USB cable connect to the Argon M.2 case. This complete in less than 5min.
Complete the case assembly and fire it up, the new HA installation complete in less than 10min.
I created a new account and upload my snapshot and do a recover everything. This takes around 15min to complete.
And that’s it, migration complete.
I plan to activate the active cooling some days in this week.
Thanks to @FreelancerJ for starting this thread with great info.
Argon M.2 case doesn’t support NVMe SSD. Also, don’t think RPi4 can benefit much using NVMe drive. To me, this M.2 SSD is capable enough to handle HA database.
I’ve set up a Raspberry Pi 4 in the Argon One M.2 case using your guide successfully - thank you for the very comprehensive documentation! One minor tweak I needed to make was to automations.yaml. Instead of:
entity_id: sensor.pi_cpu_temp
I had to change this to the following, as the default CPU temp entity name was different for me:
Hi everyone!
I have bought also the argon one m2 case with an intenso m.2 ssd 128GB.
I have burned an sd card with the official bootloader image for pi4, plugged in the pi and after a while everything was okay.
Then burned the homeassistant image on the ssd with balena etcher.
I have then “fixed” everything in the argon one m.2 case and after a while the “welcome screen” of homeassistant appeared.
Made a new user login just to make sure everything works and after that restored everything from the last snapshot created before the upgrade.
Everything works great and with no issues!!
My Homeassistant “server” works great now!! Really excited with the upgrade!!!
My Pi 4 4GB with a M.2 SSD in an Argon One Case is running without any problem with the newest versions (core 2021.6.4, supervisor 2021.06.0 and Home Assistant Operating System 6.0).
so glad I read all the posts, including the ones about power issues with the attached SSD… was able to cancel my order for the M2 case, and will now turn to the regular case (because I do want the active cooler fan to do its job)
guess the described issues are identical to what I experienced earlier with a regular case, but with external SSD’s, and their need for a powered USB hub. The Pi simply isn’t made for powering SSD’s on its own, no matter the reports of users saying they fare well. Ultimately, its about edge cases, and having a bricked Pi at that time isnt what we are looking for…
fyi, see here for my findings on that matter, using powered USB hubs, and the back-powering most of them cause
on power rating: do we have a number for the fan itself?
I also use a regular Argon case with external 256G Samsung SSD in UGREEN enclosure (no hub needed) ; With RPI4b and original power supply it seems ok, never had any issue.
Fan in Aron case is pretty weak; dont know the numbers
thanks. Must confess I feel my issues were brought up after updating to OS 6.0, but at Discord the kind people convinced me I was asking for trouble using only SSD’s and rely on the PI for powering those. Checking the numbers in this thread above, which go way beyond the max 1.2A for the Usb devices (together!) I could relate to that judgement…
As long as its doing well, it is, well, doing well, until the moment you have no response anymore…
I don’t see any issues using a SSD (Kingston A400) on a Rpi4 with official charger, it can run two of the Kingston’s without any issues or need for externally powered. I also run a Rpi4 and in a ArgonM.2 case without any problems and have been for a good few months.
It doesn’t make that much difference with the temperature…with a cheap standard case with a fan on constant it sat around 39c in a 21c cupboard (winter time), now in the summer with ArgonM.2 case in a 26c cupboard I’ve got it hoovering between 44-47c with fan automation coming on 55% for 5mins every 15-20min to keep within these perimeters………if I keep the fan on constantly it sit at 37c.
