Interesting insights. I've always been using the official power supplies and SD-Cards and flash drives from major brands. And they always got me brand new cards, as the were under warranty. Also, we have super stable power supply here. Often years without power surge, the last black some years ago, and this only locally. Despite that, my devices are connected to a UPS since a while, and I had still issues.
Tom Keffer schrieb am Samstag, 24. Februar 2024 um 00:25:43 UTC+1: > I'm with Vince. I believe the micro-SD cards are perfectly reliable. As an > experiment I've been running WeeWX on an RPi B+ with an SD card for over 9 > years. The key is a reliable power supply connected to a UPS. Webpage: > https://www.threefools.org/weewx/status/index.html > > I'm getting tired of waiting for it to break --- it's taking up too much > space on my desk. If it doesn't break soon, I'll probably end the > experiment. > > On Fri, Feb 23, 2024 at 11:41 AM Gábor Szabados <gabor.sza...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Shamefully, running a bit old version of WeeWX, from 2019, on a Raspberry >> Pi Zero W, which has Raspbian and mainly default settings WeeWX. The same >> SD card since. The Pi operates in an interceptor way, it creates a hotspot >> for the weather station which sends all information to WU, WeeWX with >> Interceptor intercepts it, meanwhile the Pi connects to the local network >> by Wifi as well. A bit over complicated, but it was before the FineOffset >> clones were offering a custom URL option in their firmware. >> >> It was a minimum budget project, still runs without any issues. (Knock on >> wood.) >> >> Graham Knights a következőt írta (2024. február 23., péntek, 19:43:49 >> UTC+1): >> >>> I've been running weewx on a RPi 3B+ for just over 5 years, but after a >>> couple of other pi's died for various reasons (SD card being one of them), >>> I've moved it to a debian install on a VM in a Windows 10 Pro machine (runs >>> my automation server). Hardware is a Lenovo ThinkCentre M700 Tiny which I >>> find perfect for running a couple of small linux VM's on it. Low power, >>> tiny, quiet, and versatile, and Lenovo hardware has been good to me over >>> the years. Machines are cheap to find on ebay/amazon, probably less than a >>> new Pi by the time you add all the parts. >>> >>> On Friday, February 23, 2024 at 9:46:42 AM UTC-8 vince wrote: >>> >>>> If I was starting clean 'today', I would probably just throw $125 at it >>>> and get one of those little beelink boxes amazon sells and toss linux on >>>> it. >>>> >>>> But to answer - currently on a 4GB pi4 to sd card for 2+ years with no >>>> issues. >>>> >>>> Stability issues on a pi are almost always bad power supply these >>>> days. I've never had a micro-sd fail on a pi3, 3+, 4, or pi5. Never. I >>>> did burn a 'lot' of big sd cards on the old modelB over the years but >>>> again >>>> that was related to either (a) cheapo cards or (b) cheapo power adaptors >>>> not on surge suppressors. My one remaining modelB is still happily >>>> shooting my timelapse snaps for over a decade now. >>>> >>>> I do make one change to the pi setups to protect the sd card. I mount >>>> some filesystems as tmpfs so the sd can't be hammered by log writes by >>>> appending this to /etc/stab >>>> >>>> #---- put logs and tmp dirs in ramdisk too --- >>>> tmpfs /tmp tmpfs >>>> defaults,nosuid,mode=0755,nodev,noatime 0 0 >>>> tmpfs /var/log tmpfs >>>> defaults,nosuid,mode=0755,nodev,noatime 0 0 >>>> tmpfs /var/tmp tmpfs >>>> defaults,nosuid,mode=0755,nodev,noatime 0 0 >>>> #--------------------------------------------- >>>> >>>> Yes - if I reboot I lose the system logs. But I basically never reboot. >>>> >>>> I might add that I do install rsyslog and the matching logrotate.d and >>>> rsyslog.d files from util/ to my v5 setup, so weewx logs to under >>>> /var/log/weewx in that tmpfs partition, so I just run debug=1 here because >>>> it's not going to touch the actual sd card. Super stable. >>>> >>>> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "weewx-user" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to weewx-user+...@googlegroups.com. >> > To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/86c8becf-edfb-4264-b93f-2626ed9adfacn%40googlegroups.com >> >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/86c8becf-edfb-4264-b93f-2626ed9adfacn%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "weewx-user" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to weewx-user+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/08904aca-2678-4467-a81e-7972496abb15n%40googlegroups.com.
