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Re:MicroSD cards' SBC days are numbered by dannyw on Wednesday May 15, 2024 @03:52AM (#40364193)
You're probably buying consumer microSD cards. If you buy high endurance or industrial ones, they tend to be pretty reliable in my opinion; no less than a branded NVMe or SSD.
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Re:MicroSD cards' SBC days are numbered by cjk2 on Wednesday May 15, 2024 @04:01AM (#40364256)
It’s not necessarily the SD that’s unreliable but the interface. I’ve had data corruption on SDs. Never with CFexpress for example.
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Re:MicroSD cards' SBC days are numbered by imtringued on Wednesday May 15, 2024 @02:14PM (#40370430)
It's not the SD card, it's the random powerloss from the janky chargers people used to power their raspberry pi that caused the SD card corruption. 99% of SD cards are used in battery powered devices with zero risk of power loss.
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Re:MicroSD cards' SBC days are numbered by mbrndtgn on Wednesday May 15, 2024 @08:32AM (#40366061)
That's my experience as well, but the ones which have wear leveling are almost as expensive as SSDs and I only use them in devices which have no other storage option. For a new SBCs I would definitely prefer an SSD or NVMe drive.
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