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Eventually sounds like far far away In reality, they really have short lifespan, are slow, and halt the system Therefore I wouldn’t recommend the rpi anymore
by jbverschoor 6y ago
Eventually sounds like far far away
In reality, they really have short lifespan, are slow, and halt the system
Therefore I wouldn’t recommend the rpi anymore.
- schwartzworld 6y agothe lifespan is mostly due to writes, right? so couldn't you just boot from an SD card but save your actual data on an external drive?
- johntash 6y agoYes, I have several pis that boot from an sd card and then all of the file systems get mounted over NFS. The sd card only needs to be read from once every few weeks/months when it boots. Even if it does wear out, storing all the data on NFS (or a usb drive) makes it a lot less worrying.
- geerlingguy 6y agoThe whole point of my post is to suggest that it's now easy (soon even easier when it's not a beta feature) to run everything from a durable external SSD. You don't even need a microSD card inserted anymore. Ideally the next Pi gets some interface that allows more integrated storage, like eMMC or NVMe, but even with USB the speed and durability justifies annoying cabling situations.