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echo: rberrypi
to: KURT WEISKE
from: MARK LEWIS
date: 2018-05-12 02:46:00
subject: Lifetime of SD cards runn

 On 2018 May 11 09:20:56, you wrote to All:

 KW> I'm considering running my BBS on a Raspberry Pi, but haven't ever run
 KW> a BBS on solid-state media. With 24 hour random read-write access, how
 KW> long would an SD card be expected to last?

that depends on several factors but these days, several years is pretty
standard...

on linux, one can disable what is known as "atime", one of the three time
stamps, which will save a lot of write cycles...

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