Hey!
Long story short, I’m interested in Self hosting stuff and want to wet my feet a bit with a spare laptop I have.
The main nvme drive is used by windows 10, and it has a 250 Go SD card.
I’ve been trying to install TrueNAS Scale and YunoHost on the SD card to no avail.
I have seen people on forums say they had stuff installed on an SD card but I’m starting to doubt it.
Can it work? I think I need some help but I don’t know what info might be useful.
As long as you can select the SD card in the bios boot menu, you should be able to install an OS there and run anything. Just be aware that the life of the SD card will be short if your server write data continuously to the SD card (e.g. excessive logging). Even if you don’t do any excessive write, SD cards tend to have shorter life than SSD anyway, so make sure you have a disaster recovery plan so you won’t get caught off guard when your SD card suddenly fails.
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As long as you can select the SD card in the bios boot menu, you should be able to install an OS there and run anything. Just be aware that the life of the SD card will be short if your server write data continuously to the SD card (e.g. excessive logging). Even if you don’t do any excessive write, SD cards tend to have shorter life than SSD anyway, so make sure you have a disaster recovery plan so you won’t get caught off guard when your SD card suddenly fails.