Switch from SD card to SSD for Home Assistant on a Raspberry Pi 4
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This guide exaplins exactly how to switch your Raspberry Pi-based Home Assistant installation from using an SD card to an SSD with all your existing data.
One of the neatest ways to run Home Assistant is to pop it onto a Raspberry Pi.
The tools available for this are excellent and the ecosystem is rich with
documentation and addons.
I've been running my Home Assistant installation from a Raspberry Pi 4 with a
128GB SD Card for about 8 months but it appears the SD card is slowly failing -
write & read speeds have degraded to such a point that the system barely can
function any longer. It's a known fact that SD cards are not happy when you have
lot
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