I am about to upgrade my Hassio from a Raspberry Pi 2B and want to know which version of Pi 4 should I be buying ie the 1G, 2G or 4G model?
Mike Paneth
Melbourne Australia
Really, in the case of Hass.io I donāt think it would really matter all that much? I donāt see Hass as really being a memory intensive application of the Piās processing(*).
That saidā¦ when the time comes (I think Iāll give the Pi Foundation a chance to see and remedy any early issues that might arise (wasnāt there some ruckus a few weeks ago about the USB-C implementation?). At the very least, Iāll wait until they have Pi4 usb-boot sorted.
But when I doā¦ itāll most likely be a 4 gig model.
(rationale- unless youāve got a super-intensive full-fledged install with lots of devices and external data dependencies, most of the usage is in small bursts, mostly āon-demandā and really doesnāt require all that much computation on the tasks asked of it.)
There really isnāt a lot of difference in the prices, Iāll throw down $20 for a couple extra gigs.
Thanks for the reply.
Just found out that avalibility in Australia from Elements 14 is in October, so no rush now.
How many HassIO addons you do plan on using?
I have 10 at the moment.
May add a couple more if the need arrises, but has been about the same for the past 6 months.
I went through this exercise myself. Technically, running HASS.OS and/or HASS.IO you have no reason for anything more than 1G RAM. However, being an old Unix guy I have always lived by the comment; āYou can never have too much RAMā. RAM is cheap as dirt now.
I settled on a 2G RAM PI4 because they were in stock for overnight delivery from Amazon.
Nobody ever got sacked for buying too much RAM.
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