Use an external SSD for your PhotoPrism instance
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planted Jun 08, 2021
You should add an external drive to your PhotoPrism instance, because otherwise it will put all data on the SD card.
I only use a pretty small 32 GB SD card for my PhotoPrism instance and save all other data to an external drive. Since SD cards have a limited life span this allows my data to be more secure.
A SSD is recommended for a better speed at indexing.
I suggest doing this directly after PhotoPrism is installed on your Raspberry.
To properly use an external SSD drive for your Photoprism, a few steps are needed:
- Mount your external drive
- Automount your external drive
- Configure PhotoPrism to use the external drive
Now you are ready to set up synchronization between your Nextcloud and your PhotoPrism.
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