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I agree. I have run quite a few Raspberry Pi over the years and so many of them died because of SD card corruption. Eventually I got a NanoPC T4 with built in e

by iddqd 6y ago

I agree. I have run quite a few Raspberry Pi over the years and so many of them died because of SD card corruption. Eventually I got a NanoPC T4 with built in eMMC and it’s been tugging along for a good 2 years with zero issues.

bitwize 6y ago
I've never experienced this SD card corruption, even when power goes down to the Pi. I believe it happens, but I wonder what my unique circumstances are. Is it that I always use Samsung or SanDisk SD cards with the Pi?
- shiftpgdn 6y ago
  Those will still eventually die due to log being written to the card using all available read/write cycles.
  - bitwize 6y ago
    That's a problem that will eventually affect any flash solution -- SD card, SSD, or USB flash.
  - megous 6y ago
    They usually just stop accepting writes (silently). It's a bit of a head scratcher at first. But at least it doesn't lead to a complete data loss.
  - puzzlingcaptcha 6y ago
    You mean /var/log or filesystem log? What about using non-journaling filesystems or keeping /var/log on a ramdisk?
- CharlesW 6y ago
  > Is it that I always use Samsung or SanDisk SD cards with the Pi? Quite possibly! Flash memory is absolutely not all the same. I wish someone would do for SD cards what Backblaze does for hard drives.
- cptskippy 6y ago
  > Is it that I always use Samsung or SanDisk SD cards with the Pi? Oddly enough, Samsung, SanDisk, and Sony are the three brands I've had die on me. I had a GoPro eat two Sony cards in less than a year, I switched to SanDisk Endurance and it's been plugging along for about 2 years now. I've had one Samsung and a couple SanDisk SD cards die in Raspberry Pi's. I'm currently using MicroCenter, AData and one other lower tier brand that have held up much better than the name brands.
hohloma 6y ago
I've had a raspberry with SD card for more than 3 years now, still working fine. YMMV obviously
wjdp 6y ago
Had similar and switched to a cheap used desktop. I was running Home Assistant [1] and my guess is the constant writing of state history into the database slowly killed the card. [1]: https://www.home-assistant.io/ https://www.home-assistant.io/
ekianjo 6y ago
> I have run quite a few Raspberry Pi over the years and so many of them died because of SD card corruption The Pi themselves don't die because of a SD corruption. Only the SD cards do (and they can be recovered).

by iddqd 6y ago

bitwize 6y ago

I've never experienced this SD card corruption, even when power goes down to the Pi. I believe it happens, but I wonder what my unique circumstances are. Is it that I always use Samsung or SanDisk SD cards with the Pi?

shiftpgdn 6y ago
Those will still eventually die due to log being written to the card using all available read/write cycles.
- bitwize 6y ago
  That's a problem that will eventually affect any flash solution -- SD card, SSD, or USB flash.
- megous 6y ago
  They usually just stop accepting writes (silently). It's a bit of a head scratcher at first. But at least it doesn't lead to a complete data loss.
- puzzlingcaptcha 6y ago
  You mean /var/log or filesystem log? What about using non-journaling filesystems or keeping /var/log on a ramdisk?
CharlesW 6y ago
> Is it that I always use Samsung or SanDisk SD cards with the Pi? Quite possibly! Flash memory is absolutely not all the same. I wish someone would do for SD cards what Backblaze does for hard drives.
cptskippy 6y ago
> Is it that I always use Samsung or SanDisk SD cards with the Pi? Oddly enough, Samsung, SanDisk, and Sony are the three brands I've had die on me. I had a GoPro eat two Sony cards in less than a year, I switched to SanDisk Endurance and it's been plugging along for about 2 years now. I've had one Samsung and a couple SanDisk SD cards die in Raspberry Pi's. I'm currently using MicroCenter, AData and one other lower tier brand that have held up much better than the name brands.

hohloma 6y ago

I've had a raspberry with SD card for more than 3 years now, still working fine. YMMV obviously

wjdp 6y ago

Had similar and switched to a cheap used desktop. I was running Home Assistant [1] and my guess is the constant writing of state history into the database slowly killed the card. [1]: https://www.home-assistant.io/ https://www.home-assistant.io/

ekianjo 6y ago

> I have run quite a few Raspberry Pi over the years and so many of them died because of SD card corruption The Pi themselves don't die because of a SD corruption. Only the SD cards do (and they can be recovered).