To add more to my message above, the 8TB Samsung 870 QVO that was running my media server died after about four years of use - it would no longer boot up, and when I pulled it out of its enclosure and cabled it directly to SATA ports on my desktop PC, although I could see the disk and the partitions on it, nothing could be read or written, and attempts to re-partition it failed. A google search shows that batches of these drives from around the time I purchased mine have a high failure rate.
Anyway, I re-installed the OS and media server software on a spare 256GB SATA SSD that I had, using it in the same enclosure that the failed Sumsung had been in, and bought a Crucial X10 8TB portable SSD to hold the media files, and the RPi5 with the official Pi5 power supply has (so far) been able to power both the SSDs without problem via the PI's USB ports.
Anyway, I re-installed the OS and media server software on a spare 256GB SATA SSD that I had, using it in the same enclosure that the failed Sumsung had been in, and bought a Crucial X10 8TB portable SSD to hold the media files, and the RPi5 with the official Pi5 power supply has (so far) been able to power both the SSDs without problem via the PI's USB ports.
Statistics: Posted by NickJP — Fri Nov 14, 2025 6:43 am