Subj : Re: RPis
To   : deon
From : N1uro
Date : Sun May 23 2021 09:17 am

Hello deon;

-=> deon wrote to N1uro <=-

 de> Wow, I'm surprised by your issues.

I wasn't just talking about mine, which in reality have been quite few but
those of others who use them and have had poor luck with them.

 de> I've never had an SD card fail - I've had them for many years.

I had one fail, but I was also logging every little thing that happened on it.
SD Cards almost 10 years ago did not like that. 

 de> (I lie, my P4 got really hot one day, because the fan failed - and it
 de> started getting I/O errors - but cooling it down seemed to fix it.)

Sounds as if you got a little luck there and saved it before things became
more permanent.

 de> Now my P4's run ESXi with 3 VMs - with a BBS in docker that floats
 de> between the 3 VMs. Additionly its running on an M2 Sata - which is just
 de> a USB device. With USB booting now (which I started using on the P4s),
 de> I'm only using the SD card as a backup device.

 de> I'm very happy with the Pis.

I haven't touched a 4 yet. Mainly I get them to make a distro with my stuff
pre-installed for those who aren't familiar with installing things. Pi3 was my
last one. Now there's multiple issues with Linux's ham protocol stack.
We've submitted patches but they keep rejecting them claiming our patches
aren't required - yet they've helped fix many MANY guys who use the native
kernel protocol stack.

.... I route, therefor you exist.
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