Hello Dave!

22 Jan 18 14:16, you wrote to me:

 DL> On Mon, 22 Jan 2018 11:02:20 +1200, Kees van Eeten wrote:

 >>> when used intensively, a micro SDcard will soon die.
 >>
 >>  What is soon?

 DL> About 6 weeks for an micro SD card or USB memory stick with a Pi
 DL> being used as a timelapse camera taking a full HD image every 30

 .....

 DL> room for the wear leveling to work with, unlike a card with a fair
 DL> bit of free space.

 O.K. but that is really heavy use. I think I had one SDcard die on me
 with Domoticz running for over a year.

 The fidonet nodes have short activities about ever 10 minits and messages
 are all small and text base. If you use a 32 or 64Gb card, it lasts a long
 time.

Kees

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