This site is no longer solar powered for now

Re:This site is no longer solar powered for now by samtho on Saturday June 03, 2023 @12:39PM (#36178125)

I’m not sure which SD card was chosen in the past, but I do recommend upgrading to an industrial one (and not just high endurance), and they are typically purchased through electronics components retailers/suppliers.

One brand I use is ATP for my ruggedized systems[0]. Yes, they may be an order of magnitude more expensive than even a high endurance from SanDisk or Samsung, but I started using these in 2015 or 2016 and found they hold in harsh terrain, tolerate brown outs (these devices are solar powered and run off of super capacitors), and JustWork(tm).

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Re:This site is no longer solar powered for now by tssva on Saturday June 03, 2023 @04:07PM (#36180052)

Or just run it off a USB drive.

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Re:This site is no longer solar powered for now by frowin on Saturday June 03, 2023 @05:42PM (#36180800)

Or an SSD. Is easy and cheap these days.

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Re:This site is no longer solar powered for now by tssva on Saturday June 03, 2023 @07:32PM (#36181551)

I didn't mean exclusively a flash drive. Since this is a RPi 3+, any SSD used to boot is going to be a USB attached SSD.

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Re:This site is no longer solar powered for now by brainbag on Saturday June 03, 2023 @06:57PM (#36181322)

I clicked that link expecting to see an outrageous price, but it appears to be $28 for a 256 GB highly reliable SD card. That doesn't seem right. Am I missing something?

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Re:This site is no longer solar powered for now by samtho on Saturday June 03, 2023 @11:16PM (#36182749)

There are varying degrees of ruggedness, this line I use when moisture or vibrations are not an issue (just temperature fluctuations and minor humidity changes).

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Re:This site is no longer solar powered for now by nyanpasu64 on Sunday June 04, 2023 @12:14AM (#36183036)

Is this SD card as fast as an average SanDisk/Samsung card you get off Amazon for photography or cell phones? If so, I want to only buy these from now on; SD cards are notorious for failing when used as a boot disk in Pis.

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Re:This site is no longer solar powered for now by samtho on Sunday June 04, 2023 @02:42AM (#36183574)

The ones I used are sufficiently fast. Each one usually comes with a data sheet that have performance specifications. Some sacrifice speed and capacity for data integrity (writing twice), but in general, the main features and use-cases are highlighted on the first page.

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