Raspberry Pi Model A+ Board

Re:Raspberry Pi Model A+ Board by tdicola on Saturday November 08, 2014 @01:51PM (#8577775)

Maybe you should look at exchanging your Pi for another one. Manufacturing defects are rare but can happen.

I've used dozens of Pi's and never had bad reliability problems. Always use a quality 1 amp or more power supply, good name brand SD card, never remove power without running shutdown command to halt card writes, and never plug or unplug USB devices while powered up (older model boards don't handle the voltage drop well). I have never seen a corrupted SD card when following those rules.

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Re:Raspberry Pi Model A+ Board by custardcream on Saturday November 08, 2014 @02:21PM (#8577863)

I probably should have but I am disinclined to bother with it or promote it after getting a face full.

If you can't hot plug a USB device, forget it.

Power supply was a Thurlby PL330 linear bench PSU (£350 worth) so I'm sure that bit was fine.

I'd rather pay £10 more for something that works. To be honest a lot of no brand Chinese Ali Express dev kit I've bought is more reliable so I'm not sure what they're doing wrong.

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