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Re:I bought 200 Raspberry Pi Model B’s and I’m going to fix ... by geek_at on Saturday January 23, 2021 @04:52PM (#25886482)
I use one of the first batches to control a few sensors around my front door. Movement detection, reed switch door opening sensor and it controls the siren and the light at the front door.

I burnt through sooo many SD cards until I started using Alpine Linux which runs perfectly on the Pi and runs from a RAM disk. No more dead SD cards for me

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Re:I bought 200 Raspberry Pi Model B’s and I’m going to fix ... by forty on Sunday January 24, 2021 @07:12AM (#25891399)
I put u-boot on the SD card, then set the SD card R/O using the hardware switch on the SD card (i don't know if it's a standard thing, but mine have one).

Then I put the OS on USB and boot from there. SD cards stopped dying :)

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Re:I bought 200 Raspberry Pi Model B’s and I’m going to fix ... by rasz on Sunday January 24, 2021 @01:52PM (#25894594)
fun fact: read only switch on SDcards is a dummy piece of plastic, it just flips a real switch in the card slot letting the controller know your wish.

https://www.remosoftware.com/info/wp-content/uploads/2017/06...

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Re:I bought 200 Raspberry Pi Model B’s and I’m going to fix ... by elaus on Saturday January 23, 2021 @05:36PM (#25886778)
That's interesting. I have a Pi 1B running non-stop since 2013 with the default Raspian image and the SD card still seems to be fine. Maybe I've just been lucky till now…
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Re:I bought 200 Raspberry Pi Model B’s and I’m going to fix ... by geek_at on Sunday January 24, 2021 @06:47PM (#25897425)
It only dies when it's powered down unexpectedly. (while writing)
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Re:I bought 200 Raspberry Pi Model B’s and I’m going to fix ... by 542458 on Saturday January 23, 2021 @06:50PM (#25887291)
Oh Alpine sounds cool - I’ll have to look into that. I’ve always just kludged raspibian into running read-only, but it’s fiddly. Your solution sounds much nicer.
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Re:I bought 200 Raspberry Pi Model B’s and I’m going to fix ... by geek_at on Sunday January 24, 2021 @06:46PM (#25897419)
I did the same before discovering alpine. I am much happier now :D
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