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the Pis themselves tend to be reliable; the weak point will probably be the microSD card for one hosting write-heavy apps
by joe5150 10y ago
the Pis themselves tend to be reliable; the weak point will probably be the microSD card for one hosting write-heavy apps
- hasperdi 10y ago+1 for this. There is more explanation here: http://hackaday.com/2016/08/03/single-board-revolution-preventing-flash-memory-corruption/ http://hackaday.com/2016/08/03/single-board-revolution-preve...
- trome 10y agoYeah, data corruption is a big issue with the Pis, and definitely not something you want on a Point of Sale.
- jacobush 10y agoTrue. If I need a lof of writes, I hook up an SSD. Also, For some applications, you can roll your own root file system and mostly avoid writes. I.e. Yocto
- tomelders 10y agoIn my head it would be booting into Chromium to run an offline web app, and the app would make requests against a CouchDB service on the local network. No transaction data would be written to the Pi's memory. This is all just spitballing though. I'm literally just considering it.