There are nowdays also ”high endurance” rated microsd cards available. For example Kingston makes cards, that are warranted for 3 years 24/7 continuous fullhd video recording, so they should have no problems on typical raspberry usage.mcrossley wrote: ↑Sat 21 Nov 2020 12:30 pm Regarding running an OS on an SD card - yes it is going to fail at some point. There are a number of options to mitigate that...
Use an SLC SD card - they tolerate orders of magnitude more write cycles.
Use a larger card than you need - spread the writes over more memory cells.
If you have a pi 3 or 4 you can boot from a USB attached SSD drive (I do this), 128 GB USB 3 SSD drives are cheap.
The pi 4 also allows you to fall back to booting from the SD card if the USB drive fails/isn't available. The pi 3 is a one-way journey to USB boot.
Use symbolic links for all the temp files MX creates (realtime files, all *htmtmp etc) to your in-memory RAM drive.
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