On 10/05/18 22:20, Kurt Weiske wrote:
>
> I'm considering running my BBS on a Raspberry Pi, but haven't ever run a BBS
on
> solid-state media. With 24 hour random read-write access, how long would an
SD
> card be expected to last?
>
I run several Pi 24/7

The media server is still using the original SD card after over 5 years
(although the actual media files are on a 4TB usb disk)

The web server burned out the first SD card after about 4 months but the
replacement is still running after almost 5 years. There are 5 websites
with many SD writes from the logs, emails and weather data.

So far the 8 CCTV Pi have all been running 24/7 for over a year with
about 2GB of images being written to the SD card on a daily basis. They
are removed by a cron job when they are > 10 days old to let the space
be re-used. I had 1 SD card fail after about a month. Its replacement
and the other 7 are all working well.

So I guess sometimes you're lucky and sometimes you're not.

--
nev
getting the wrong stick end since 1953

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