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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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