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inigyoulast Sunday at 12:24 PM4 repliesview on HN

Yeah but it's also SD cards in particular and Raspberry Pis in particular.


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whartunglast Sunday at 2:53 PM

Are there other computers that run off of SD cards long term successfully that are not Raspberry Pi’s?

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mDyJzDPmBdGyesterday at 9:03 AM

I found GoPros to cook SD cards from time to time. It makes me wonder if normal sized SD are still manufactured and are they more resistant. For years in stores I only saw miro SD with adapter to full size.

tuatorulast Sunday at 4:42 PM

Early on Raspbian didn't specify noatime or even relatime; every time something was read off disk, a write happened.

Let alone things like putting /var/tmp and/or /var/log in RAM, or long commit intervals.

No idea what the current situation is; Pis are too dear for the likes of me now.

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close04last Sunday at 4:28 PM

I’ve had the same issues in the Pi1-3 era, can’t say for sure if it was the Pi, the SD card, or the software running on top (HA was a big culprit). The last issues were probably before 2018-2018. Since then I don’t remember having any failure and I have a bunch of Pi3s and 4s running with flawlessly for about that long, including HA.

Since then I’ve been careful to buy high quality cards, oversized them a bit, optimize the OS and apps with regards to writes (like no unnecessary logging), and paid attention to airflow. The software probably also evolved to fix the issues.