Raspberry Pi 400 Desktop PC

Re:Raspberry Pi 400 Desktop PC by jon-wood on Monday November 02, 2020 @06:27AM (#24966876)

I’m responsible for a fleet of a few hundred Raspberry Pis being used as home monitoring hubs - they use high grade SD cards, and are configured to write as little as possible while still fulfilling their function, yet we still see one or two a month fall of the internet because of SD card corruption. This is absolutely a problem.

I believe the compute module is somewhat better in that it uses eMMC rather than SD cards.

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Re:Raspberry Pi 400 Desktop PC by read_if_gay_ on Monday November 02, 2020 @07:22AM (#24967334)

Correct me if I’m mistaken, but isn’t eMMC literally just an embedded SD card?

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Re:Raspberry Pi 400 Desktop PC by makomk on Monday November 02, 2020 @10:29AM (#24969103)

Same interface as an SD card, but better firmware and probably higher quality flash. SD cards are really aggressively cost-cut, often coming in than less than the price of raw flash of the same capacity.

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Re:Raspberry Pi 400 Desktop PC by avian on Monday November 02, 2020 @08:08AM (#24967754)

As someone who has also worked with fleets of devices (R.Pi-based and others) working off SD-cards, I can confirm what jon-wood is saying. For some reason SD cards fail at a much higher rate than eMMC flash chips in traditional SMT packages.

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Re:Raspberry Pi 400 Desktop PC by cvakiitho on Monday November 02, 2020 @08:04AM (#24967707)

It is, and it is better because it probably has better chips, but it will die, and brick RPi in the future.

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