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| djacobow:
Two years is not that much time. And, yes, most SD cards are garbage and many SD cards that are expensive and promise better life are also, unfortunate, garbage. In fact, it's very difficult to ascertain whether you have actually gotten the card you paid for. All good reasons not to build your storage system around it. |
| LoveLaika:
Wow. Who knew there was so much hate for the Pi. So, what do you guys like to use in place of the Pi for what people use it for? UDOO? Pine? Beaglebone? Wandboard? (or the even more popular Banana Pi?) For me, Pi Zero is hard to beat in terms of its size. |
| AntiProtonBoy:
--- Quote from: djacobow on September 27, 2021, 01:48:41 am ---Two years is not that much time. And, yes, most SD cards are garbage and many SD cards that are expensive and promise better life are also, unfortunate, garbage. --- End quote --- Keep in mind, we're talking about continued read/write operations, running 24/7, with torrents filled to capacity. This far exceeds a typical desktop usage workload. I had crappy SD cards die just a few months in when used in such manner. --- Quote ---In fact, it's very difficult to ascertain whether you have actually gotten the card you paid for. All good reasons not to build your storage system around it. --- End quote --- It certainly is a calculated risk. Buy reputable brands from reputable sources, you are more likely to actually get what you paid for. |
| AntiProtonBoy:
--- Quote from: LoveLaika on September 27, 2021, 02:09:36 am ---So, what do you guys like to use in place of the Pi for what people use it for? UDOO? Pine? Beaglebone? Wandboard? (or the even more popular Banana Pi?) For me, Pi Zero is hard to beat in terms of its size. --- End quote --- Ignore the haters. Just use the Pi, unless you have something very specific in mind. It's dirt cheap and have nothing much to lose. |
| Just_another_Dave:
--- Quote from: AntiProtonBoy on September 27, 2021, 01:37:15 am --- --- Quote from: djacobow on September 27, 2021, 01:20:47 am --- bd139 is absolutely right about storage and reliability. The platform has been just atrocious for eating sdcards. For personal use, that alone has driven me off the platform. --- End quote --- Regarding the SD card problem, well, the issue predominantly lies with the actual SD card in the first place. Most of them are just trash, have no wear levering and are not designed for the purpose of hosting an OS environment. So your mileage will vary depending on how much you cheaped out on your storage. Invest in a better SD card, you get better performance and lifetime. I always choose cards from SanDisk High Endurance product line, as they are designed for lots of write operations like dashcam usage. I had a 32 GB SD card in a Pi torrent server/seeder, which was running 24/7 for at least 2 years now, and had no issues with reliability. I recently upgraded it to 256 GB. --- End quote --- If I remember well, there was a project for allowing to boot it from an external HDD or SSD Edit: You can find a guide on how to achieve that here: https://www.tomshardware.com/how-to/boot-raspberry-pi-4-usb |
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