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Re:Toshiba Introduces New Tiny NVMe SSD Form Factor by throwaway542134 on Tuesday August 06, 2019 @01:42PM (#20627544)
I don't think the connector is the problem but the devices you connect to. RPis are notorious for having a poor lifespan due to reading/writing from the SD cards, but I think that's mostly due to the cost tier of a $30 computer.
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Re:Toshiba Introduces New Tiny NVMe SSD Form Factor by solarkraft on Tuesday August 06, 2019 @04:44PM (#20629425)
> RPis are notorious for having a poor lifespan due to reading/writing from the SD cards

How does the Raspberry Pi deteriorate from the interaction with the SD card?

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Re:Toshiba Introduces New Tiny NVMe SSD Form Factor by bayindirh on Tuesday August 06, 2019 @02:09PM (#20627824)
I'm running a batch of SBCs which boot from SD cards as home or forgettable servers. None of them died due to SD card failure yet. A good SD card with a little optimization keeps the flash media wear out at bay.
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Re:Toshiba Introduces New Tiny NVMe SSD Form Factor by bobwaycott on Tuesday August 06, 2019 @09:54PM (#20631374)
What little optimizations?
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Re:Toshiba Introduces New Tiny NVMe SSD Form Factor by bayindirh on Wednesday August 07, 2019 @03:03AM (#20632539)
Like writing logs to RAM and syncing back to disk daily or only on reboots/shutdowns, keeping high-write applications on a USB drive and providing the biggest cache possible by slimming down the OS memory footprint.

This two things reduce the hits to SD card substantially.

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Re:Toshiba Introduces New Tiny NVMe SSD Form Factor by imtringued on Wednesday August 07, 2019 @03:57AM (#20632768)
It has more to do with the garbage $2 power supply someone had "lying around".
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