# Advise for High Performance HA OpenHAB server hardware

**URL:** <https://community.openhab.org/t/advise-for-high-performance-ha-openhab-server-hardware/102112>\
**Category:** Server\
**Created:** [July 10, 2020, 3:22pm UTC](https://community.openhab.org/t/advise-for-high-performance-ha-openhab-server-hardware/102112 "2020-07-10T15:22:08Z")\
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**Author:** ![mstormi](https://community.openhab.org/user_avatar/community.openhab.org/mstormi/32/55857_2.png) [@mstormi](https://community.openhab.org/u/mstormi)\
**Post date:** [July 12, 2020, 10:06am UTC](https://community.openhab.org/t/advise-for-high-performance-ha-openhab-server-hardware/102112/13 "2020-07-12T10:06:02Z")

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> [@xsherlock](#):
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> As for possible failures I most fear, (and want to be protected) are any HDD/SDcard failures or some random OH corruptions.

Then your post asking for HW redundance was a bad move.  
It made us victim to the [XY problem](https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/66377/what-is-the-xy-problem/66378#66378). Pay more attention next time please.

That being said, go openHABian on a RPi. It has the [ZRAM feature](https://community.openhab.org/t/zram-status/80996) to mitigate SD wearout problems. It also has [its own backup system](https://github.com/openhab/openhabian/blob/master/docs/openhabian-amanda.md) that you can and should use to create a spare SD card.  
A dedicated system (even if it’s just a RPi) is preferred over units to share functionality with other systems such as a NAS (even if they’re hypervisors).

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