I use no slower than Class 10 mSDHC cards in mine. Anything slower takes for-ev-er to image. There’s no way to add a SATA drive to the Pi without doing it over USB so there’s no benefit to that other than capacity to doing it that way - you’re probably better set using it as secondary storage and not running the OS from it. That’s the plan with my projects. I’ve run all my stuff off a massive 12VDC LGM battery for days at a time without issue and, to be fair, shutting down improperly is something the Pi just doesn’t have to worry that much about. Yes files get left open sometimes but I’ve never had one fail because of a file issue… entire cards have failed but never a boot failure caused by locked files. Tweaking can be done directly on the memory card, if you feel you have to, but I use SSH connections for my non-Zeroes to do my configurations if I don’t have a KVM handy. > On Dec 10, 2019, at 12:09 PM, Iznogoud <iznogoud at nobelware.com> wrote: > > On the subject of RPi and distros/OSs, what media do people use to run their > OS for hte RPi? Is it cards? has anyone attached regular drives? And what is > the favourite way of straight-up tweaking the RPi's OS before deploying it? > And, lst one, has anyone powered the RPi and a harddrive from a common power > supply/battery? > > I am interested in having a robust filesystem, as in, having proper shutdown > procedure when power on the RPi's primary source is running low (say due to > a power outage of the UPS). I would like to power the RPi and a regular SSD > or HDD from a single source. > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list