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Re:ZFS on a single core RISC-V hardware with 512MB by potrebitel on Monday March 14, 2022 @04:37AM (#30669836)
NanoPI M4 burned two SD cards and destroyed its own eMMC module due to some weird behavior while I was using it for NAS.

No idea what caused it, I suspect excessive writes and wearing the flash storage or corrupting the bootloader and not being able to recognize the boot media. The "wear" I mentioned could be something else of course, but except the normal OS writes, everything went to the SATA drives.

It sounded like a solid piece of hardware with the 4 SATA-ports-hat and good CPU, but at the end it turned out to be un-reliable as at some point the OS hang, couldn't boot from the OS storage and the bootloader wasn't seeing the partitions via UART debug session.

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Re:ZFS on a single core RISC-V hardware with 512MB by actually_a_dog on Monday March 14, 2022 @06:52AM (#30670806)
Huh. The only thing I can think of off the top of my head that would cause it to chew up 2 SD cards is excessive amounts of logging. Nothing else really seems to make much sense.
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