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Make the sdcard a read only root fs, problem solved
Doesn't actually help. It eventually goes corrupt anyway. It might be related to power ripple or something. Makes it easy to replace, though.
I'm not a sysadmin but I often hear about server failures due to hardware just wearing out. Is there an expected shelf life of the hardware? I would expect for sure on the storage devices. So if that were the case then why isn't there some sore of daemon or system software service that tracks the expected life of the hardware? I would expect that the software would start showing warnings of imminent useful life of de…
I'm running my own home server on an old 2014 Mac mini, 24/7 basically. It both has a SSD and a HDD (old "Fusion" disk type of machine, but I use both parts separately, the SSD part for the OS, the HDD part for the data.) A few days ago the HDD had its 100,000 Power_On_Hours anniversary. :) According to SMART this is way past the expected/ designed life time of the disk (the normalised value reports "1" since a few y…
Raspberry Pis are notorious for SD card corruption with unknown causes. In this era you might replace it with a mini-PC (NUC style).
You can buy cards that support SMART if you want to track wear, but they are expensive.
Raspberry Pis are notorious for SD card corruption with unknown causes. In this era you might replace it with a mini-PC (NUC style).
Rpi5 has a pcie slot if you want a cleaner setup.
Raspberry Pis are notorious for SD card corruption with unknown causes. In this era you might replace it with a mini-PC (NUC style).
I bought all the stuff (new case, networking card and a Jonsbro N4 to repurpose some intel i7-9700 era processor and motherboard, but didn't get it setup yet, as I was starting to rethink the power consumption....
Also looking to use this rebuild as an opportunity to learn Nix.
Let me know if you all have some good article references, to point me at. I've been doing some research, but could always do more.
I may end up putting a low power NUC in the case, or something. I don't know...
I'm not a sysadmin but I often hear about server failures due to hardware just wearing out. Is there an expected shelf life of the hardware? I would expect for sure on the storage devices. So if that were the case then why isn't there some sore of daemon or system software service that tracks the expected life of the hardware? I would expect that the software would start showing warnings of imminent useful life of de…
Why not get a Beelink N95 and call it a day?
I assume it’s a bad capacitor or something. I tried changing out the power adapter, but that didn’t help.
I don’t see myself ever buying another Beelink.
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Flash memory generally doesn't have great lifespan for repeated writes; using it as a root device is going to kill it pretty quickly. I had a similar problem once running a NAS off a USB stick; within a year of so the stick would no longer accept new data and I swapped it out for an SSD instead.
Yeah but it's also SD cards in particular and Raspberry Pis in particular.