I've just bought myself this: https://www.zotac.com/product/mini_pcs/zbox-ci337-nano-barebone and a data center SSD. Ask me in a year, or two :)
michael.k...@gmx.at schrieb am Samstag, 24. Februar 2024 um 08:20:17 UTC+1: > Interesting insights. I've always been using the official power supplies > and SD-Cards and flash drives from major brands. And they always got me > brand new cards, as the were under warranty. Also, we have super stable > power supply here. Often years without power surge, the last black some > years ago, and this only locally. Despite that, my devices are connected to > a UPS since a while, and I had still issues. > > Tom Keffer schrieb am Samstag, 24. Februar 2024 um 00:25:43 UTC+1: > >> I'm with Vince. I believe the micro-SD cards are perfectly reliable. As >> an experiment I've been running WeeWX on an RPi B+ with an SD card for over >> 9 years. The key is a reliable power supply connected to a UPS. Webpage: >> https://www.threefools.org/weewx/status/index.html >> >> I'm getting tired of waiting for it to break --- it's taking up too much >> space on my desk. If it doesn't break soon, I'll probably end the >> experiment. >> >> On Fri, Feb 23, 2024 at 11:41 AM Gábor Szabados <gabor.sza...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> Shamefully, running a bit old version of WeeWX, from 2019, on a >>> Raspberry Pi Zero W, which has Raspbian and mainly default settings WeeWX. >>> The same SD card since. The Pi operates in an interceptor way, it creates a >>> hotspot for the weather station which sends all information to WU, WeeWX >>> with Interceptor intercepts it, meanwhile the Pi connects to the local >>> network by Wifi as well. A bit over complicated, but it was before the >>> FineOffset clones were offering a custom URL option in their firmware. >>> >>> It was a minimum budget project, still runs without any issues. (Knock >>> on wood.) >>> >>> Graham Knights a következőt írta (2024. február 23., péntek, 19:43:49 >>> UTC+1): >>> >>>> I've been running weewx on a RPi 3B+ for just over 5 years, but after a >>>> couple of other pi's died for various reasons (SD card being one of them), >>>> I've moved it to a debian install on a VM in a Windows 10 Pro machine >>>> (runs >>>> my automation server). Hardware is a Lenovo ThinkCentre M700 Tiny which I >>>> find perfect for running a couple of small linux VM's on it. Low power, >>>> tiny, quiet, and versatile, and Lenovo hardware has been good to me over >>>> the years. Machines are cheap to find on ebay/amazon, probably less than a >>>> new Pi by the time you add all the parts. >>>> >>>> On Friday, February 23, 2024 at 9:46:42 AM UTC-8 vince wrote: >>>> >>>>> If I was starting clean 'today', I would probably just throw $125 at >>>>> it and get one of those little beelink boxes amazon sells and toss linux >>>>> on >>>>> it. >>>>> >>>>> But to answer - currently on a 4GB pi4 to sd card for 2+ years with no >>>>> issues. >>>>> >>>>> Stability issues on a pi are almost always bad power supply these >>>>> days. I've never had a micro-sd fail on a pi3, 3+, 4, or pi5. Never. >>>>> I >>>>> did burn a 'lot' of big sd cards on the old modelB over the years but >>>>> again >>>>> that was related to either (a) cheapo cards or (b) cheapo power adaptors >>>>> not on surge suppressors. My one remaining modelB is still happily >>>>> shooting my timelapse snaps for over a decade now. >>>>> >>>>> I do make one change to the pi setups to protect the sd card. I mount >>>>> some filesystems as tmpfs so the sd can't be hammered by log writes by >>>>> appending this to /etc/stab >>>>> >>>>> #---- put logs and tmp dirs in ramdisk too --- >>>>> tmpfs /tmp tmpfs >>>>> defaults,nosuid,mode=0755,nodev,noatime 0 0 >>>>> tmpfs /var/log tmpfs >>>>> defaults,nosuid,mode=0755,nodev,noatime 0 0 >>>>> tmpfs /var/tmp tmpfs >>>>> defaults,nosuid,mode=0755,nodev,noatime 0 0 >>>>> #--------------------------------------------- >>>>> >>>>> Yes - if I reboot I lose the system logs. But I basically never >>>>> reboot. >>>>> >>>>> I might add that I do install rsyslog and the matching logrotate.d and >>>>> rsyslog.d files from util/ to my v5 setup, so weewx logs to under >>>>> /var/log/weewx in that tmpfs partition, so I just run debug=1 here >>>>> because >>>>> it's not going to touch the actual sd card. 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