On a sunny day (Fri, 11 May 2018 20:17:06 -0000 (UTC)) it happened
andrew@cucumber.demon.co.uk (Andrew Gabriel) wrote in
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>In article ,
>        nospam.Kurt.Weiske@f1.n770.z8746.fidonet.org (Kurt Weiske) writes:
>>
>> 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 have several original Pi 1's which have been running 24/7 for almost
>5 years. I've never had a card fail in them. The application logs quite
>frequently to disk and the writes are flushed. I did change the cards
>after around 3 years, just to be safe, and because you can't read how
>worn they are.
>
>The main killer for SD cards is losing power during or shortly after
>writes. It's not that some filesystem writes are lost (fsck could
>repair a filesystem after that).

fsck will usually be able to fix the filesystem,
but data that was in memory and not yet written to the card is always lost
during a sudden power failure.

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