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With how frequently micro SD cards fail, I wouldn't trust them with anything beyond short-term transient storage of fine-if-lost data.
by Dalewyn 2y ago
With how frequently micro SD cards fail, I wouldn't trust them with anything beyond short-term transient storage of fine-if-lost data.
- ghaff 2y agoI’m pretty much like that with most storage :-) Certainly when I come back from a trip any camera photos on an SD card get put into my photo cataloguing and backup system pronto.
- dannyw 2y agoYou're probably buying consumer microSD cards. If you buy high endurance or industrial ones, they tend to be pretty reliable in my opinion; no less than a branded NVMe or SSD.
- cjk2 2y agoIt’s not necessarily the SD that’s unreliable but the interface. I’ve had data corruption on SDs. Never with CFexpress for example.
- imtringued 2y agoIt's not the SD card, it's the random powerloss from the janky chargers people used to power their raspberry pi that caused the SD card corruption. 99% of SD cards are used in battery powered devices with zero risk of power loss.
- mbrndtgn 2y agoThat's my experience as well, but the ones which have wear leveling are almost as expensive as SSDs and I only use them in devices which have no other storage option. For a new SBCs I would definitely prefer an SSD or NVMe drive.
- kats 2y agoProbably 95% of raspberry pis are sitting unused on a shelf, so it was was an excellent choice to make these boards lower cost w/ microSD cards.