uSD cards are not broken. You just have to not buy from unknown manufacturers that just put some third party parts together and call it done. And if you use qua

uSD cards are not broken. You just have to not buy from unknown manufacturers that just put some third party parts together and call it done. And if you use quality power supply and wiring, to avoid brownouts, SD cards can be quite reliable. Choosing an appropriate filesystem may also help (like f2fs). I have several multigb PostgreSQL databases (with checksumming enabled) running from uSD cards for years, scraping data from the web hourly. I find uSD cards quite reliable, actually (for rootfs use), in contrast to what's being said online all the time. I also like that it's removable. If it breaks you just pop in another $4 32GB card, restore, and continue where you left off. Compared to soldered on eMMC, that's much more user friendly.