Subj : Re: Old Geek Thoughts... To : beardy From : aLPHA Date : Sun Jan 09 2022 16:04:26 > Je> love them! The SD card just a known weakness and it's happened to > me. > > Same here, I have a bunch, the latest being a Pi3 running RetroPie and > Kodi for my TV. > But indeed, SD cards are their weakness, and I've had most of the > use-cases > die on me when the SD card dies. What you said about the power loss > and power > issues is probably the cause indeed, I thought it had to do with > overclocking, > but the root cause is probably the power indeed. Just fried an SD card on my RetroPie last week when I installed my Pi in a 3D printed case I got online (it looks like a mini Amiga 1200, couldn't resist) and the case wasn't well designed, it was touching the SD card area and it melted the PLA and a little hole in SD card. Lesson learned. |04a|12LPHA |03Alpha Complex |15- |11alphacomplex.us:2323 --- Talisman v0.35-dev (Linux/x86_64) * Origin: aLPHA cOMPLEX: You are in Error. No one is screaming. (21:4/158) .