Spending a little extra on good quality SD cards helps both durability and performance. Also making a backup image of the SD card once configured and using a N

Spending a little extra on good quality SD cards helps both durability and performance. Also making a backup image of the SD card once configured and using a NAS or external disk for important info helps mitigate the data loss risk, and gives you a quick path to restore onto a fresh SD. With that said, I have a few raspberry pis that have been running for years without SD failures. Also, make sure swap is not enabled on the SD