Folks have associated corrupt SD cards to overclocking, all the way to stating outright that overclocking will corrupt your SD card 100% of the time, if used lo

Folks have associated corrupt SD cards to overclocking, all the way to stating outright that overclocking will corrupt your SD card 100% of the time, if used long enough. So, if you're overclocking, don't do that if you're using SD cards. With Pi firmware newer than late 2016 (if I recall) you can write a file to an SD card that sets a bit in NVRAM somewhere telling it to boot to USB from that point onwards, and then you can operate without that SD card or any other going forward. Thumb drives are usually faster and more durable than SD cards.