Now that I have messed around with HA enough on a Raspberry Pi 3, I’d like to move to a permanent/robust/fast install.
Having all of the data coming to a SD card constantly cannot be the best. I’m wondering what everyone is using for HA hardware for the long haul and large databases.
I recently updated my Pi3 to boot/run off of a SSD. I have not had any SD issues but prefer the (hopefully) reliability of a SSD.
I use to run on a server alongside Zoneminder (not in VMs). I may down the road go back to the server with a VM running to have HA, ZM, Unifi, and anything else just to reduce my required physical space.
Remember that Hass IO is running in docker containers.
Therefore, if I am not mistaken, the read/write operation will be in memory and the only read/writes to SD card will be the database and log you find in the config folder.
This is I think why Hass IO is much more stable on an SD card then running Hassbian