# Best hardware platform **URL:** \ **Category:** Server\ **Created:** [April 8, 2016, 8:03am UTC](https://community.openhab.org/t/best-hardware-platform/9542 "2016-04-08T08:03:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 11
**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:** [April 8, 2016, 4:26pm UTC](https://community.openhab.org/t/best-hardware-platform/9542/11 "2016-04-08T16:26:27Z")
Well, you can turn this into a complex discussion: reliability, maintenance efforts required, amount of community experience and support available, performance, pricing, energy & space consumption, compatibility issues with different processors, I/O boards, OS versions etc etc. Pis are a fine tradeoff as long as you offload disk writes to take care of the SD card corruption issue. Use a USB stick and/or NAS (if you have one). Still - and that’s true for _any_ other server as well - as you increasingly rely on home automation, you should prepare for as many types of outages as possible. While a SD card will crash (often), any SSD can fail, too. Or your radio stick breaks. Or your router. Or or or … What you really need is to identify all your single points of failure, and then come up with a comprehensive HW and OS backup strategy. See also [this](https://community.openhab.org/t/openhab-server-redundancy-any-ideas/2949) thread for some more hints and discussion. --- _[View the full topic](https://community.openhab.org/t/best-hardware-platform/9542)._