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Re:Nine Raspberry Pis powering an office (2016) by marcosdumay on Monday October 25, 2021 @03:12PM (#28991837)
I have always used a few since the days of the original version. On my experience they last until I drop them, crush them with some tool, or step over them.

The power supply tends to be much shorter lived. I severely oversize those and even then they like to stop working after just a few years. The SD card is the shortest lived component by far, but it lasts longer and has a better failure mode if you disable swap. (Why do pi distros enable swap at all?)

Oh, and of course, since version 3 the power cable is the hardest component to get right. You need a very good cable, and you probably don't even know the specs on most of the ones you have...

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Re:Nine Raspberry Pis powering an office (2016) by ajford on Monday October 25, 2021 @05:30PM (#28993382)
I've had a lot of luck using the Samsung Evo Select micro sd cards, and use them almost exclusively with my RPis. I've recently been trying PNY Elite-X as well with good results, though I think I've only got one Pi running those (and two Wyze cams).
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