Choosing a 2.5" HDD Caddy

[courtg9000]

As its for a Pi have you tried having a proper chat with Pimoroni or The Pi Hut.
Customer Service from those guys has been excellent in my opinion whenever I have had a query regarding my Raspberry Pi "server estate"
Yeah "server estate" is a bit rich for 3 webservers a NAS and a questionable TV/Gaming Rig

[Protagoras]

As its for a Pi have you tried having a proper chat with Pimoroni or The Pi Hut.
Customer Service from those guys has been excellent in my opinion whenever I have had a query regarding my Raspberry Pi "server estate"
Yeah "server estate" is a bit rich for 3 webservers a NAS and a questionable TV/Gaming Rig

I've not had a chat with them, since I've got no problem with PIs.

I've got a small portfolio of PIs mostly running IOT servers - Mosquitto, NodeRed, Sqllite - but also PiHole, and UPS management etc across a few locations.

I seldom reboot them and they just keep going. The only challenge I ever have is with SD card failures. I've tried numerous brands, but in the end gave up and went for external spinning disks for databases since I had them in the spares box.

[courtg9000]

I've not had a chat with them, since I've got no problem with PIs.

I've got a small portfolio of PIs mostly running IOT servers - Mosquitto, NodeRed, Sqllite - but also PiHole, and UPS management etc across a few locations.

I seldom reboot them and they just keep going. The only challenge I ever have is with SD card failures. I've tried numerous brands, but in the end gave up and went for external spinning disks for databases since I had them in the spares box.

I use SanDisk Extrmes on mine and not had a problem, my "webserver01" gets hammered with a beefy Nextcloud instance, a wordpress mule and some other stuff. Hasn't missed a beat. "webserver02" is probably going Home Assistant at some point and 03 is housing a prototype. I bought the Pi Nas kit and it works a treat. The TV/gaming box has a 5TB WD usb drive attached again, never missing a beat.

[Protagoras]

Out of interest, what's the PI NAS write performance like?

[Protagoras]

The 7200rpm disk has been running in one of these cheap caddies for 5 days, no problem so far. The caddy has 2 USB connections to provide power.

I jinxed it! One stopped working a couple of hours ago, but resumed when I unplugged it and plugged it in again.

[courtg9000]

Out of interest, what's the PI NAS write performance like?

I dont have any issues 4 x 12TB seagate red. RAID1.
Not seen any problems in the logs and I do check from time to time