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My £60 ARM server

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Re: My £60 ARM server

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I plan to do a very similar thing with my Raspberry Pi.

I want to replace my router with a Raspberry Pi, but seems impossible to buy one

Just to make you feel bad, I've just been notified mine got shipped and I'll get it soon :)

They are getting sent, just slowly.

Re: My £60 ARM server

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

You could also get an "industrial grade" SD card; they claim a lifetime of years instead of months. They're usually using SLC Flash and (possibly) more advanced wear leveling compared to consumer cards.

i wouldn't count on that, google's study of hard drive lifetime/durability indicated that "enterprise" hard drives had almost identical lifetimes and performance characteristics to consumer gear (baring of course stuff like 15k RPM drives). In other words, "enterprise" is more or less exactly the same stuff, but at a premium. Price discrimination strikes again.

In the Flash case there's a big physical difference between MLC and SLC. You're probably about as likely to get struck down by firmware failure in both cases, though.
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