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Re:Raspberry Pi microSD card performance comparison by pera on Friday April 06, 2018 @03:29PM (#16776580)
Yeah, industrial grade SDs is the way to go. Here is an interesting graphic comparing different types of NAND memories:

https://www.cactus-tech.com/resources/blog/details/slc-pslc-...

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Re:Raspberry Pi microSD card performance comparison by 0xcde4c3db on Saturday April 07, 2018 @10:19AM (#16780796)
You'll pay for it, though. Truly industrial-grade SD cards (i.e. SLC flash, industrial temperature range, specified terabytes written/MTBF) apparently cost over $10/GB unless you're buying in huge quantities. I guess that might be a good motivation to slim down your root filesystem.
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Re:Raspberry Pi microSD card performance comparison by monocasa on Saturday April 07, 2018 @03:36PM (#16782402)
A lot of the newer industrial cards are 'aMLC', which basically means you take an MLC NAND, but only stuff 11 or 00 into a cell and sort of treat it as SLC. You can get for close to $1/GB at sane quantities.
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Re:Raspberry Pi microSD card performance comparison by chasil on Friday April 06, 2018 @03:51PM (#16776779)
I bought a SwissBit card off of Ebay for my Raspberry PI, because I wanted the longevity of SLC media.

The prices seem to be trending up for SwissBit.

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