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We use a small drink kiosk touch pad powered by Rasperry Pi, using this simple software project: https://github.com/rwth-i6/drink-kiosk https://github.com/rwth-

We use a small drink kiosk touch pad powered by Rasperry Pi, using this simple software project: https://github.com/rwth-i6/drink-kiosk https://github.com/rwth-i6/drink-kiosk Works great. Except the SD card seems to be dying now after 3 years of constant usage (well, less usage during the enforced home-office times).

JaimeThompson 5y ago
Check out the high endurance SD cards they typically support 10 to 100 times the writes other SD cards do and aren't that much more expensive. They are most often used in dashcams and the like.
- gambiting 5y ago
  Or for a kiosk you could probably run exclusively from RAM and never touch the SD card after the initial boot.
  - sgt 5y ago
    We found that booting from USB and using a 2.5" SSD drive is durable.
foxfluff 5y ago
Fwiw Alpine Linux is very easy to set up in diskless mode. That's what I used for my first Pi 4 install. It does boot up and load packages from the sd card, but after that everything runs from RAM.
forinti 5y ago
Try disabling syslog and swap.
benttoothpaste 5y ago
3 years for SD card is very long. Mine requires SD card replacement after 3-4 months. I hate that storage medium.
- tempfs 5y ago
  Add something like this to your /etc/fstab. Will save a few touches to the SD card and enhance system security a little. My last SD went for 3+ years on a decently busy little Pi. ## ## Decrease touches to root partition a little with noatime flag ## /dev/mmcblk<NUM>p<NUM> / ext4 defaults,noatime 0 1 ## ## decrease writes because tmp activity by mounting as tmpfs ## tmpfs /tmp tmpfs ddefaults,nodev,nosuid,noexec,noatime,mode=1777 0 0 ## ## /dev/shm security measure ## tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs defaults,noexec,nodev,nosuid 0 0
ValentineC 5y ago
If this works for you: I've found that it's good practice to mount root as read-only once your software configuration is stable, and try to use tmpfs for everything.

JaimeThompson 5y ago

Check out the high endurance SD cards they typically support 10 to 100 times the writes other SD cards do and aren't that much more expensive. They are most often used in dashcams and the like.

gambiting 5y ago
Or for a kiosk you could probably run exclusively from RAM and never touch the SD card after the initial boot.
- sgt 5y ago
  We found that booting from USB and using a 2.5" SSD drive is durable.

foxfluff 5y ago

Fwiw Alpine Linux is very easy to set up in diskless mode. That's what I used for my first Pi 4 install. It does boot up and load packages from the sd card, but after that everything runs from RAM.

forinti 5y ago

Try disabling syslog and swap.

benttoothpaste 5y ago

3 years for SD card is very long. Mine requires SD card replacement after 3-4 months. I hate that storage medium.

tempfs 5y ago
Add something like this to your /etc/fstab. Will save a few touches to the SD card and enhance system security a little. My last SD went for 3+ years on a decently busy little Pi. ## ## Decrease touches to root partition a little with noatime flag ## /dev/mmcblk<NUM>p<NUM> / ext4 defaults,noatime 0 1 ## ## decrease writes because tmp activity by mounting as tmpfs ## tmpfs /tmp tmpfs ddefaults,nodev,nosuid,noexec,noatime,mode=1777 0 0 ## ## /dev/shm security measure ## tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs defaults,noexec,nodev,nosuid 0 0

ValentineC 5y ago

If this works for you: I've found that it's good practice to mount root as read-only once your software configuration is stable, and try to use tmpfs for everything.