09-15-2020, 03:31 AM
(09-14-2020, 09:53 PM)cofot28 Wrote: ...................... snip ........................
Concerning future upgrades, I find that the use of the microSD card for loading the system represents (at least for me) the main issue. This is because an audiophile fanless pi4 is getting quite hot and sooner or later the sd card is dead. In addition, changing the SD card in a boxed pi (for a different use) is a real pain requiring in most cases special tools. Last but not least, if someone wants to accommodate a lot of high-resolution music files in a single media together with the system this is not possible given the limited space of the reasonably priced sd cards.
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Heat = the 'silent' killer (you may have a good point... RPi 4 may become a furnace if proper heatsink or heat dispersion is not used)
There is a simple addon, well... two simple addons, that can help in this respect (and can solve the access to the micro SD card port within the RPi in the case of using a desktop enclosure):
- Micro SD to Micro SD Extension Cable
- Micro SD to SD Extension Cable
