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Re:Raspberry Pi 5 by keikobadthebad on Thursday September 28, 2023 @05:56AM (#37687411)
The SD is the worst for reliability, but if it's like rpi4, you can put UEFI on the SPI flash and come up on non-SD boot devices without SD now.

But that's all kind of crazy when cheaper, faster SBCs commonly simply boot to reliable, on-board, eMMC.

Re:Raspberry Pi 5 by selimnairb on Thursday September 28, 2023 @06:24AM (#37687605)
Yeah, still happy I went with the Odroid M1 for a small home media server. It’s not fast, but it does everything I need out of the box, has a very nice aluminum case, and doesn’t use much power.
Re:Raspberry Pi 5 by wkat4242 on Thursday September 28, 2023 @11:28PM (#37698983)
eMMC isn't that reliable. It's basically an SD card on a chip.

Difference is they're more optimised for random writes than large files like most SD cards, but you can get such SD cards too ("High Endurance" models)

Re:Raspberry Pi 5 by keikobadthebad on Saturday September 30, 2023 @09:19AM (#37715174)
When was the last time the eMMC on your phone failed? They are very reliable.

I have had several SDs fail sooner or later since rpi1 though which is why I personally won't be using them any further.