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Same. Bought a Dell refurb and I’ve had so many fewer hassles. The SD card was perhaps the biggest source of issues and after factoring the cost of outfitting a
by thedougd 3y ago
Same. Bought a Dell refurb and I’ve had so many fewer hassles. The SD card was perhaps the biggest source of issues and after factoring the cost of outfitting a RPi with something like an SSD, it just wasn’t cost effective anymore.
- mbirth 3y agoThis I never understood. I have 3 different RPis running since they were available to buy. A 2, a 3 and a 4. All with the OS on microSD and no optimisation like writing log files to tmpfs or similar. It’s plain Ubuntu Server for ARM. And in all these years, I had maybe one microSD going read-only on me. Cloned that to a fresh one, did an fsck and the Pi was up and running again. That’s it. No other issues despite various sudden power losses etc. I don’t understand where these rumours about bad reliability of SD cards in Pis come from.
- thedougd 3y agoMaybe you're lucky or buying the right SD cards? I've always used noatime for filesystem, journald set to ram logging, etc. Usually everything seems fine until a reboot triggers a fsck. Most were ext 3/4 filesystems.
- ecef9-8c0f-4374 3y agoPi 1 a/b were really fragile but since pi 2 this problem is mostly solved. Still if I need to write a lot I would use a external drive. We have >300 pies running 24/7 on 52 sites all over the world. Even though we use no name brand microSDs we had only 2 failures because of a broken SD card in 4 years. Our partner company was using our hardware as a basis for something. After 1 month they asked us what SD cards brand we were using because they had a high failure rate. Our secret. We use a self made distro with minimal writes, they used default raspian and were writing permanently to the SD card.