SBC with 2 SD card slots?

MigratingtoLemmy@lemmy.world to Selfhosted@lemmy.world – 4 points –

Hi, I'm looking for SBCs where I can run the OS on one storage device, and the applications on another. I believe a couple of Khadas boards have such features, but they also have some other peripherals that I don't need. I want something like a LibreComputing potato but with the capability to have 2 storage devices (not through USB please, it had proven to be unreliable). I plan to use this as an IOT/Network infrastructure server (Pi-Hole, Unbound, VPN etc).

Any suggestions?

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I wouldn’t want even 1 card. I wish my pi just had a sata slot. These fucking cards just die so quickly. It’s one of the reasons I’m looking for some thin client/NUC.

There are thin clients that have an M.2 slot and an mSATA (or just normal sata), you should try that.

I am considering running a mini PC with 3 slots for storage drives (2 SATA + 1 NVME/2 NVME + 1 SATA, etc). Know anything I can use?

I’m pretty sure some Intel NUCs support 1x NVMe + 1x M.2 SATA + 1x SATA

I have one of these mini PCs arriving soon. A little more money than I wanted to spend and no idea if this brand is any good. But it checks a lot of boxes for a backup server project I'm working on - eMMC for boot, microsd slot, M.2 2280 NVME socket, and a 2.5" SATA connection. They have some other variants as well that don't cost as much.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0B6P4MDWN

I originally got a used Dell Optiplex Micro from eBay for this. They come with a 2.5" SATA connection. But I learned the hard way that not all models come with M.2.