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I was using one for filming a client job the other day, without a backup card. It cracked and bent in half and I thought I was going to have to entirely reshoot
by prawn 3y ago
I was using one for filming a client job the other day, without a backup card. It cracked and bent in half and I thought I was going to have to entirely reshoot the location. Bent it back and put it in the laptop and got all the data fine. Never had one fail.
- 0xDEADFED5 3y agoIf you've never had one fail you haven't used them enough. Raspberry Pi usage seem to be pretty efficient at sorting the good ones from the bad ones
- phito 3y agoI've been using RPIs since their first release and never had an SD card failure. Might just be luck though cause I know the problem is real and happens to many people.
- NewsyHacker 3y agoIt depends on the distro. What especially hammers SD cards on Linux, eventually rendering the card read-only, is logs being written to disk. A lot of distros for Raspberry Pi therefore now keep logs in RAM.
- forty 3y agoThis issue is true of any flash memory. See my sibling comment on using an USB stick to write data: I also destroyed a bunch with logs
- forty 3y agoI destroyed many SD cards with the original Pi. I ended up putting the card read only with the hardware switch and use a USB stick for writing data. No issue with microSD cards with more recent Pis (or other SBC) however
- jbverschoor 3y agoExactly my experience. They work five until they don’t. Not risking my data nor tribe in those things anymore even though I love that they’re small and cheap. Ideal for large media which doesn’t require too much bandwidth.
- jbverschoor 3y agotribe=time
- LeafItAlone 3y ago> It cracked and bent in half You cracked and bent a microSD card? How did that happen?
- jbverschoor 3y agoChewbacca
- jimbobthrowawy 3y agoI'm surprised there aren't adapters to connect two or more micro SD cards to one device and duplicate written data to both of them. I assume you couldn't do it with wiring alone, and would need a chip in there. Even finding a microSD extension was tricky when I wanted to mess about with the hardware.