Raspberry Pi SD Card Failures

Please keep in mind that as many Raspberry Pi owners discover SD Cards are not built to be written to constantly, they can fail in unexpected ways.

I've had numerous failures on older RPi models due to SD card corruption, even in non-write intensive contexts. Not sure this is good enough when you want reliability...

Yes, but the SD card may have a short life if the system writes a lot on it - so far that is the common failure mode of RPi, which are otherwise reliable.

Why are Rpis still bothering with SD cards? Who did not get their pi card corrupted while used as a server?

Try an ‘industrial’ flash card. I outfitted my pi with a SwissBit microsd and haven’t had any disk problems since.

I've been really unsuccessful at getting a Pi to not destroy SD cards. Good quality cards, good quality power supplies, no swapping - it still eats them up.The best way to fix this is to put the actual OS on an external disk. You absolutely must bootstrap from an SD card, there's no way around that. But that can be entirely read-only and then you bounce to the external drive. Or maybe you could do something like a PXE boot instead - copy a system image down from a server and boo

My experience with SD cards suggests the raspberry pi is just as likely to eat your data as an old harddisk

I ran into similar issues when using Rpi with SD cards, but I switched to a bootable SSD and had zero issues since.If you don't like tinkering with your Rpi I can also recommend the Odroid C4: it has a better GPU and a native eMMC connector so you don't have to fiddle around with SD cards.

Hey, about the raspberry pi, I have had a bunch of problems with it eating the micro SD cards, like they fail in six months or an year tops. I had countered this for some little time by using it to boot and relaying to a hdd. How are you handling this? Is there some special micro SD card that doesn't fail as soon?

SD cards can die within a few months through repeated power cycling, or writing logs to disk instead of to RAM. There are techniques that one can use to lengthen SD card life, but the average person buying a Pi and slapping a media-center distro on there might not know about them or be willing to e.g. invest in an UPS and use the command line to hack logging.