Raspberry Pi 400 Desktop PC

Re:Raspberry Pi 400 Desktop PC by Uberphallus on Monday November 02, 2020 @06:03AM (#24966710)

I've had all RPi versions except RPi4, running at least 1 of them 24/7 since the first one was released, and by the first year I had a cron that dd'd the card every night, and I found myself dding the backup image at least 2-3 times per year.

RPi3+ has had no problem so far, and I'm not upgrading to RPi4 out of fear of it becoming an unstable mess again.

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Re:Raspberry Pi 400 Desktop PC by _trampeltier on Monday November 02, 2020 @06:32AM (#24966910)

I did run Boinc on over 20 different SBCs for 2 or 3 years. So they run 24/7 with 100% and I just had 2 broken SD cards from all those SBCs. I guess thats fine.

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Re:Raspberry Pi 400 Desktop PC by jiofih on Monday November 02, 2020 @06:12AM (#24966773)

Schools are not running 24/7 servers from them.

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Re:Raspberry Pi 400 Desktop PC by Uberphallus on Monday November 02, 2020 @07:57AM (#24967644)

Schools may have a lab with 30, used 2h per day, makes it more than double my failure rate. Add kids popping the cards in and out all the time and you have a recipe for disaster.

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Re:Raspberry Pi 400 Desktop PC by Mediterraneo10 on Monday November 02, 2020 @08:01AM (#24967680)

Schools are, however, probably power-cycling the Pi daily, and power-cycling can be just as detrimental to an SD card.

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