I have heard that users find a normal microsd card does not last long in a Raspberry Pi, so was wondering if there was any advice on single level cards perhaps?
Apologies, I seem to have made this request twice; for some reason I though the first posting didn't make it.
Re: Long life microsd
It depends entirely on what you are doing.
I and many others on the forum can certainly attest to having SD cards last seemingly forever (although forever isn't that long [about 6 years] in RPi terms). But we aren't reading/writing the card a lot - I do mostly software dev and that doesn't really thrash the card like a data collection application might.
So, it really boils down to if you are doing lots of card writing, you should re-think that and try to write to something else - either a hard disk or a network location.
I and many others on the forum can certainly attest to having SD cards last seemingly forever (although forever isn't that long [about 6 years] in RPi terms). But we aren't reading/writing the card a lot - I do mostly software dev and that doesn't really thrash the card like a data collection application might.
So, it really boils down to if you are doing lots of card writing, you should re-think that and try to write to something else - either a hard disk or a network location.
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Re: Long life microsd
The best advice I can give is don't buy cheap SD cards from sites like ebay , aliexpress etc..
Buy well known makes from well known suppliers, personally I have always used Kingston SD cards and have not had any problems even with 2 pi's running 24/7 collecting speed test results every 15 min.
Buy well known makes from well known suppliers, personally I have always used Kingston SD cards and have not had any problems even with 2 pi's running 24/7 collecting speed test results every 15 min.
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Re: Long life microsd
Under most normal use cases a good quality SD card will last a very long time. If you plan on writing lots of data there are High Endurance SD cards you could try, but as suggested above, you might be better off storing your data on a USB HDD.
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Re: Long life microsd
Turn off swap - it will silently kill your card if you get into "swap hell" by having multiple tabs open in a browser or running something that leaks memory like a sieve. If you then fall victim to the "OOM killer" then you are exceeding the capabilities of the pi. Look at reducing the amount of memory allocated to the GPU.
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Re: Long life microsd
+1 just Google "fake flash memory ebay"pcmanbob wrote: ↑Sat Jan 27, 2018 11:22 amThe best advice I can give is don't buy cheap SD cards from sites like ebay , aliexpress etc..
Buy well known makes from well known suppliers, personally I have always used Kingston SD cards and have not had any problems even with 2 pi's running 24/7 collecting speed test results every 15 min.
I have a SanDisk card bought from local computer electronics store on a pi that has been on 24/7 as a media server for 4 years.